US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on April 21 for "Rebuilding failed drives with reduced write overhead" (Minnesota, Arizona Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,608,277, issued on April 21, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Rebuilding failed drives with reduced write overhead" was invented by Robert Edward Galbraith (Rochester, Minn.), Joseph Roger Edwards (Rochester, Minn.), Adrian C. Gerhard (Rochester, Minn.) and Clint A Hardy (Tucson, Ariz.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method according to one approach, is for rebuilding a drive in a redundant array of independent disks (RAID) array. The method includes causing blocks in a replacement drive to be pre-formatted in response to: a failed drive in the RAID array being replaced with th...