Patent ID: 9619162
Date: 2017-04-11
CPC Classifications: G06F,Y02D

Claim:
1. A method of managing storage of a content unit stored on a storage system, the method comprising an act of: receiving a request to store the content unit, the request comprising metadata, associated with the content unit, that specifies a limit on an amount of power to be consumed by the storage system in maintaining the content unit; and selecting one of a plurality of available data protection strategies for the content unit based, in part, on the metadata that specifies the limit on the amount of power to be consumed by the storage system and based, in part, on an amount of power consumed by protecting the content unit with a particular one of the plurality of available data protection strategies, wherein the selected one of the plurality of data protection strategies specifies whether the content unit is to be mirrored and/or striped, and wherein the amount of power consumed by protecting the content unit with the particular one of the plurality of available data protection strategies is determined based on a number of storage devices that are to be in a powered-on state to enable access to the content unit when protecting the content unit with the particular one of the plurality of available data protection strategies, wherein: