Load distribution of multiple disks

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2007-02-12

2010-12-28

Nguyen, Than (Department: 2187)

Electrical computers and digital processing systems: memory

Storage accessing and control

Specific memory composition

C711S112000, C711S147000, C711S148000, C711S153000

Reexamination Certificate

active

07861034

ABSTRACT:
A storage system stores multiple copies of data on physical storage implemented, for example, with multiple disk units. Input/output read requests are received from host systems and distributed in a manner that allows parallel read operations to be conducted over the multiple disk units of the physical storage.

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