One or more tape cartridge restraint brackets may be generated. At least one tape cartridge restraint bracket may be positioned in one or more deep slots in a rear portion of a tape library.

A memory system includes a memory device and a memory controller. The memory device includes a plurality of memory cells. The memory controller is configured to manage the memory device using a cell level assignment with respect to a plurality of memory cell levels, determine a cell count for each of the cell levels associated with original data of the memory device that is to be accessed, predict an error rate from the cell counts, and selectively adjust the cell level assignment based on the error rate.

A method of managing extents of a file system having a protection pool includes collecting and initializing physical extent manager (PEM) metadata, using a PEM daemon thread. The PEM is configured to run on each of a number of nodes. The method also includes creating a request queue, using the PEM daemon thread, for all requests submitted to the PEM. The method also includes scanning the request queue, using a PEM worker thread, to handle incoming requests submitted to the PEM. The method also includes listening for multicast messages, using a PEM multicast listener thread, to be handled by the PEM worker thread.

Managing connectivity to synchronously replicated storage systems, including: identifying a plurality of storage systems across which a dataset is synchronously replicated; identifying a host that can issue I/O operations directed to the dataset; identifying a plurality of data communications paths between the host and the plurality of storage systems across which a dataset is synchronously replicated; identifying, from amongst the plurality of data communications paths between the host and the plurality of storage systems across which a dataset is synchronously replicated, one or more optimal paths; and issuing, to the host, an identification of the one or more optimal paths.

Storage cluster configuration for computing resources of a storage system is disclosed. A cluster configuration can be based on client indicated cluster criteria. Further, a cluster configuration can be based on non-client indicated criteria, such as, system requirements, regulatory compliance, industry best practices, etc. Determined candidate cluster configurations that can satisfy client criteria can be organized according to a selection preference, to enable selection of a preferred cluster configuration from the candidate cluster configurations. Candidate cluster configurations can result from recursive combinatorial searching, with pruning, of an entity space resulting from an ontological analysis of storage system computing resources. Pruning can be accelerated based on heuristic selection of a fork attribute. A K-D tree subjected to dimensional normalization can be employed to interpolate an attribute value. Interpolation can be performed from predetermined sets of data, for example from storage system models or historical storage system performance.

A storage cluster includes a plurality of storage nodes. Each of the plurality of storage nodes includes nonvolatile solid-state memory and each of the plurality of storage nodes is configured to cooperate with others of the plurality of storage nodes having differing storage capacities in applying erasure coding. The plurality of storage nodes are configured to distribute the user data and metadata throughout the plurality of storage nodes.

Techniques are used for identifying allocated blocks in a storage system. The techniques may be used to provide, among other things, retrieval of a value associated with a most recent reinitialization of the storage system. For a tier of user data storage in the storage system, a page of storage with the value and a marker indicating that the page marks an end of storage that has been allocated for the tier of user data storage may be identified. Storage may be allocated from a page immediately preceding the identified page.

Disclosed are a storage device and a method for controlling a storage device. When the storage device is inserted into a control device, in response to receiving an instruction of insertion, the operating system is configured to loads a system to enter a working mode; the communication module is configured to receive a to-be-written file from a terminal device and the operating system module is configured to write the to-be-written file into the storage module, to make the control device read a storage file stored in the storage module.

Techniques are described herein for a reconfigurable memory device that is configurable based on the type of interposer used to couple the memory device with a host device. The reconfigurable memory device may include a plurality components for a plurality of configurations. Various components of the reconfigurable memory die may be activated/deactivated based on what type of interposer is used in the memory device. For example, if a first type of interposer is used (e.g., a high-density interposer), the data channel may be eight data pins wide. In contrast, if second type of interposer is used (e.g., an organic-based interposer), the data channel may be four data pins wide. As such, a reconfigurable memory device may include data pins and related drivers that are inactive in some configurations.

The present disclosure generally relates to utilizing the host clock signal frequency to determine whether to operate in the default pulse width modulation (PWM) link startup sequence (LSS), be changed to high speed (HS) LSS by a host device capable of operating in either PWM LSS or HS LSS, or ignore the data storage device attributes of operating in PWM LSS and instead operate according to HS LSS. In so doing, the data storage device is adaptable to work with older generation UFS host devices as well as current and future generation UFS host devices.