System and method for pausing disk drives in an aggregate

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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 8312214
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11692589

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The present invention provides a system, method, and computer program product for “cooling” selected disks in a set of disks connected to a storage system by reducing access frequency to the selected disks and pausing the disks with the reduced access frequency. Pausing some disks advantageously reduces power consumption by the disks.

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NETAPP INC495 EAST JAVA DRIVE SUNNYVALE CA 94089

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English, Robert Sunnyvale, US 10 506

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