US Patent Issued to NetApp on Sept. 23 for "Methods for handling storage devices with different zone sizes and devices thereof" (North Carolina, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,423,015, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to NetApp Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Methods for handling storage devices with different zone sizes and devices thereof" was invented by Rohit Shankar Singh (Cary, N.C.), Douglas P. Doucette (San Diego), Abhijeet Prakash Gole (Cupertino, Calif.) and Sushilkumar Gangadharan (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosed technology relates determining a first subset of a plurality drives having a first zone size and a second subset of the plurality of drives having a second zone size different from the first zone size, within a redundant array of independent disks (RAID) group. A pr...