Storage Media Verification Upon Deployment
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Solution Overview
Problem
As storage subsystems, such as hard disk drives and solid state drives, increase in size and production, the inefficiency of testing and verifying storage media before deployment becomes a significant challenge, requiring a more effective method to ensure data storage availability upon deployment.
Innovation Solution
Implementing a storage processing system that initiates a testing process upon deployment to identify suitable storage blocks, iteratively identifies partition availability events, and makes tested partitions available to the host processing system, allowing for the verification of storage media within the deployed computing system rather than during manufacturing.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If storage media is tested and verified at the manufacturer before deployment, then storage reliability is improved, but manufacturing time and cost increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies preliminary action by performing storage media testing at the manufacturer before deployment. The system tests storage blocks and creates a map of usable storage areas in advance, so that when the storage device is deployed, the host system can immediately utilize the pre-verified storage areas without waiting for testing to complete.
2Reliability
If storage media is tested and verified at the manufacturer before deployment, then storage reliability is improved, but manufacturing cost increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies preliminary action by performing storage media testing at the manufacturer before deployment. The system tests storage blocks and creates a map of usable storage areas in advance, so that when the storage device is deployed, the host system can immediately utilize the pre-verified storage areas without waiting for testing to complete.
3Productivity
If storage media is tested upon deployment, then manufacturing efficiency is improved, but storage availability time increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies preliminary action by performing storage media testing at the manufacturer before deployment. The system tests storage blocks and creates a map of usable storage areas in advance, so that when the storage device is deployed, the host system can immediately utilize the pre-verified storage areas without waiting for testing to complete.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent applies segmentation by dividing the storage media into multiple storage blocks and testing them individually. The system creates a detailed map of which blocks are usable and which are not, allowing the host system to efficiently utilize only the verified good blocks while the testing process continues or has been completed.
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AI summary
Described here in are systems, methods and, software to verify storage media and storage subsystems upon deployment. In one example, a computer apparatus to test storage media in a storage subsystem includes processing instructions that direct a computing system to identify initiation of a storage subsystem, initiate a testing process of the storage media, and identify a partition availability event for the storage media. The processing instructions also direct the computing system to, in response to the partition availability event, make a partition of the storage media available to a host processing system, wherein the partition comprises storage locations in the storage media tested via the testing process, and continue the testing process on the storage media. The computer apparatus also includes one or more non-transitory computer readable media that store the processing instructions.