Patent ID: 11897696
Assignee: AMAZON TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC B  G | IPC B  G

Claim 18:
19. The system of claim 17, wherein the storage controller is further configured to:
determine respective available capacities at respective ones of a plurality of drive bays of the room-scale data library, wherein, the determined respective available capacity for one of the respective drive bays comprises:
an available capacity of a robotic mechanism associated with the respective drive bay to retrieve or return data storage devices to, or from, a movable shelf; and
an available capacity of drives of the respective drive bay to read or write data from the data storage devices; and

in response to determining a lack of available capacity at a given one of the drive bays, cause one or more of the movable shelves to be routed to other ones of the drive bays with more available capacity.