Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Selecting a data protection strategy for a content unit on a storage system
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Application No.: US11962499Application Date: 2007-12-21
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Publication No.: US09619162B1Publication Date: 2017-04-11
- Inventor: Michel Fisher , Stephen Todd
- Applicant: Michel Fisher , Stephen Todd
- Applicant Address: US MA Hopkinton
- Assignee: EMC IP Holding Company LLC
- Current Assignee: EMC IP Holding Company LLC
- Current Assignee Address: US MA Hopkinton
- Agent Krishnendu Gupta; Joseph J. D'Angelo
- Main IPC: G06F3/06
- IPC: G06F3/06 ; G06F1/32

Abstract:
Some embodiments of the invention relate to selecting a data protection scheme, such as, for example, mirroring or RAID, for a content unit based on power-related metadata associated with the content unit. The data protection strategy selected for a content unit may impact the amount of power that a storage system consumes.
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