US Patent Issued to Dell Products on Sept. 23 for "Re-allocation of disks based on disk health prior to restore" (Israeli, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,422,997, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Re-allocation of disks based on disk health prior to restore" 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: "Disk drive reallocation or replacement is disclosed. When performing a data protection operation, a health score is determined for each of the disk drives associated with the data protection operation. Replacement is recommended for each of the disk drives with an unfavorable health score. The recommendation may also identify a drive class based ...