Patent ID: 9323617
Filing Date: 2016-04-26
CPC Classification: G06F

Claim Text:
1. A device comprising a processor, the processor comprising: a detection unit to detect a failure of at least one of a plurality of drives of a redundant array of independent disks (RAID); a remap unit to remap a remainder of the plurality of drives, if one of the plurality of drives fails; and a mapping table, wherein the remap unit is to maintain a RAID level of the RAID and to reduce a size of the RAID, if the remap unit remaps the remainder of the plurality of drives, the remap unit is to shift logical block addresses (LBAs) of the RAID based on which of the plurality of drives failed, the mapping table is to map the LBAs of the RAID to physical blocks of data stored at a main memory, and the RAID is to be a cache for the main memory.