Methods for continuously writing resilient data

Abstract

A method of writing data to a storage array comprising a plurality of storage devices, the method comprising: receiving a request to write data to the storage array; writing the received data to cache; commencing writing a first data block of a first data stripe from cache to a first storage device of the plurality of storage devices; commencing writing a second data block of the first data stripe to a second storage device of the plurality of storage devices; and commencing writing a first data block of a second data stripe to the first storage device after the first data block of the first data stripe has been written to the first storage device but before the second data block of the first data stripe has been written to the second storage device.

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.