US Patent Issued to Dell Products on Dec. 9 for "Redistribution of disks based on disk wear patterns" (Israeli, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,493,414, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Redistribution of disks based on disk wear patterns" was invented by Ofir Ezrielev (Be'er Sheba, Israel), Jehuda Shemer (Kfar Saba, Israel) and Amihai Savir (Newton, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Redistributing disks based on disk wear patterns is disclosed. The wear patterns of disk drives in a storage system are learned or determined. When a restore operation is performed, the volumes to disk drive mappings are changed to balance the overall wear pattern of the storage system. This insures that, after the restore operation, disks that had comparativ...