ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,327,034, issued on June 10, was assigned to Western Digital Technologies Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).
"Storage device pool management based on over-provisioning" was invented by Amit Sharma (Bangalore, India) and Dinesh Kumar Agarwal (Bangalore, India).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects directed toward data storage management are provided. A storage management device is connected to data storage devices (DSDs) that form a virtual storage pool (VSP), where the storage management device is configured to increase the overall performance of the VSP, as well as the lifespans of the individual DSDs. The storage management device can be configur...