Control method of environmental temperature of storage drive
AssigneeHitachi, Ltd.
InventorsMasahiro TSURUYA, Masahiro ARAI, Akifumi SUZUKI, Shimpei NOMURA
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Abstract
A system including a first storage drive and a superior device superior to the first storage drive, wherein the superior device specifies a first allowable environmental temperature that makes the remaining lifetime of the first storage drive longer than the remaining operation schedule period of the first storage drive, and controls an environmental temperature adjusting device that adjusts the environmental temperature of the first storage drive on the basis of the first allowable environmental temperature.
Claims15
A method for controlling the environmental temperature of one storage drive or the environmental temperatures of a plurality of storage drives, comprising:
- specifying a first allowable environmental temperature that makes the remaining lifetime of a first storage drive longer than the remaining operation schedule period of the first storage drive;
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- controlling an environmental temperature adjusting device that adjusts the environmental temperature of the first storage drive on the basis of the first allowable environmental temperature.
A system comprising a first storage drive and a superior device superior to the first storage drive,
- wherein the superior device specifies a first allowable environmental temperature that makes the remaining lifetime of the first storage drive longer than the remaining operation schedule period of the first storage drive, and
- controls an environmental temperature adjusting device that adjusts the environmental temperature of the first storage drive on the basis of the first allowable environmental temperature.
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