DATA STORAGE DEVICES USE

Brand	Owner (click to sort)	Address	Description
GAIA	PANDATA, LTD.	123 West Main Street Peru IN 46970	DATA STORAGE DEVICES FOR USE WITH COMPUTERS;ISSUE NEW CERTIFICATE TO: GAIA SOFTWARE, INC., 222 SW HARRISON STREET, SUITE GA-4, PORTLAND, OREGON 97201, AN OREGON CORPORATION;THE ENGLISH TRANSLATION OF THE WORD GAIA IN THE MARK IS EARTH AS A LIVING ORGANISM.;
STORAGEBLADE	PANASAS, INC.	969 W. Maude Avenue Sunnyvale CA 94085	DATA STORAGE DEVICES FOR USE IN A COMPUTER NETWORK, NAMELY, DEVICES CONTAINING DISK DRIVES, PROCESSORS, CACHE MEMORY, CONTROLLERS AND LINKS TO CONNECT THE DEVICES WITH COMPUTER NETWORKS AND SOFTWARE FOR DATA STORAGE DEVICES;STORAGE BLADE;
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Technical Examples

A method and apparatus for mirroring data stored in a storage device within a mass storage system by copying data stored in a first storage device to a second storage device, while simultaneously flushing the write cache. After the two storage devices are synchronized, the applications running on the server that is coupled to the storage devices are temporarily halted to insure that the data is coherent. To obtain coherency, residual data in the write cache may have to be written to both the first and second storage devices. Thereafter, the mirror is broken and the first storage device can begin to be used to store data and the second storage device can be used for other purposes such as facilitating a backup of the data. In this embodiment, since most, if not all, of the data in the write cache is flushed during the time that the first storage device is copied, execution of the applications is only halted for a very short time period.