US Patent Issued to HITACHI VANTARA on March 31 for "Storage system and management method for storage system" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,591,485, issued on March 31, was assigned to HITACHI VANTARA LTD. (Kanagawa-ken, Japan).

"Storage system and management method for storage system" was invented by Tetsuya Nakamura (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A storage system includes a storage apparatus having a plurality of physical drives and a controller. In a case where a physical failure occurs in a physical drive, the controller additionally installs a drive provided from a cloud, and maintains a redundant array of inexpensive disks (RAID) configuration before the occurrence of the physical failure in the physical drive using the physical drives excluding the physical dr...