US Patent Issued to Dell Products on March 31 for "Allocating usable capacity from data storage drives having different capacities" (Chinese, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,591,383, issued on March 31, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Allocating usable capacity from data storage drives having different capacities" was invented by Jianbin Kang (Beijing), Vamsi K. Vankamamidi (Hopkinton, Mass.) and Geng Han (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Virtual RAID groups are allocated based on a set of data storage drives that are ordered in descending order of available capacity. To allocate each virtual RAID group, beginning with a second data storage drive in the ordered set of data storage drives, i) individual storage slices are allocated from subsequent data storage drives in the order...