US Patent 7093069 Integration of a RAID controller with a disk drive module

Patent 7093069 was granted and assigned to Sun Microsystems on August, 2006 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.

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Current Assignee

Sun Microsystems

Patent Jurisdiction

United States Patent and Trademark Office

Patent Number

7093069

Date of Patent

August 15, 2006

Patent Application Number

10262158

Date Filed

September 30, 2002

Patent Primary Examiner

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Denise Tran

Patent abstract

In one embodiment, a disk array storage system includes multiple disk drive modules that contain sets of drives and a number of storage controllers. Each storage controller is connected to a group of disk drives from two or more disk drive modules. The number of disk drives from the same disk drive module that are connected to the storage controller does not exceed a predefined number.