Adaptive failure survivability in a storage system utilizing save time and data transfer upon power loss

A non-transitory non-volatile computer readable storage medium having computer software stored therein that maintains failure survivability in a storage system, the software comprising:

• executable code that determines a save time corresponding to an amount of time needed to transfer system data from volatile memory to non-volatile memory;
• executable code that determines a threshold corresponding to time for batteries to run while transferring data from volatile memory to non-volatile memory after a power loss, wherein the threshold takes into account at least one of:
• debounce time for very short power loss, time to detect a power loss, time to quiesce in-progress activities, and time to activate encryption hardware;
• executable code that provides an indication in response to the save time being greater than the threshold;
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• executable code that changes a data set to be stored in a first portion of non-volatile memory to be set to be stored following a power failure in a second, different, portion of non-volatile memory in response to the save time being greater than the threshold, wherein the first portion corresponds to non-volatile memory having a longer save time than non-volatile memory of the second portion and wherein data is maintained in volatile memory following the indication indicating that the save time is greater than the threshold.