MAGNETIC DISK STORAGE DRIVES PACKAGED

Brand	Owner	Address	Description
SLIMLINE	Ex-Cell-O Corporation	Troy MI	Magnetic Disk Storage Drives Packaged into a Unit and Capable of Interfacing to a Computer System;
	Where the owner name is not linked, that owner no longer owns the brand

Technical Examples

Systems and methods for providing scalable, reliable, power-efficient, high-capacity data storage, wherein large numbers of closely packed data drives having corresponding metadata and parity volumes are individually powered on and off, depending upon their respective usage. In one embodiment, the invention is implemented in a RAID-type data storage system which employs a large number of hard disk drives that are individually controlled, so that only the disk drives that are in use are powered on. The reduced power consumption allows the disk drives to be contained in a smaller enclosure than would conventionally be possible. In a preferred embodiment, the data protection scheme is designed to utilize large, contiguous blocks of space on the data disk drives, and to use the space on one data disk drive at a time, so that the data disk drives which are not in use can be powered down.