Patent ID: 9430321
Filing Date: 2016-08-30
CPC Classification: G06F,H03M,H04L

Claim Text:
1. A method of operating a storage system, comprising: receiving a read request with an object identifier for a data object; identifying a synchronous group of data storage devices across a plurality of enclosures, wherein the synchronous group of data storage devices is associated with the object identifier, wherein each of the plurality of enclosures comprises a plurality of data storage devices; sending a request to the plurality of enclosures to synchronously activate the data storage devices in the synchronous group of data storage devices; retrieving metadata based, at least in part, on the object identifier; after sending the request to the plurality of enclosures, retrieving data fragments associated with the object identifier from the synchronous group of data storage devices; determining, from the retrieved metadata, a first set of operations and an order of the first set of operations, performing on the data fragments a second set of operations corresponding to the first set of operations in reverse of the order to reconstruct the data object.