US Patent Issued to Dell Products on July 29 for "Mapped raid configuration with multiple disk groups and a shared pool of hot spare extents" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,373,112, issued on July 29, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Mapped raid configuration with multiple disk groups and a shared pool of hot spare extents" was invented by Hailan Dong (Chengdu, China), Si Zhang (Chengdu, China) and Chi Chen (Chengdu, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus comprises a processing device configured to maintain, for a storage system implementing a mapped redundant array of independent disks (RAID) configuration including disk groups providing RAID groups comprising data and hot spare extents, a shared pool of hot spare extents comprising first and second sets of hot spare extent...