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- Patent Title: Methods for reducing initialization duration and performance impact during configuration of storage drives
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Application No.: US16393433Application Date: 2019-04-24
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Publication No.: US10691339B2Publication Date: 2020-06-23
- Inventor: Mahmoud K. Jibbe , Charles Binford
- Applicant: NetApp, Inc.
- Applicant Address: US CA Sunnyvale
- Assignee: NETAPP, INC.
- Current Assignee: NETAPP, INC.
- Current Assignee Address: US CA Sunnyvale
- Agency: Haynes and Boone, LLP
- Main IPC: G06F3/06
- IPC: G06F3/06

Abstract:
A method, non-transitory computer readable medium, and device that assists with reducing initialization duration and performance impact during configuration of storage drives includes identifying a plurality of new storage drives in a storage system. Next, one or more zeroed out storage drives is identified from the identified plurality of new storage drives based on information present in a data portion of each the identified plurality of new storage drives. A volume group comprising the identified one or more zeroed out drives is created and this created volume group is provided for data operation.
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