Patent ID: 9584160
Date: 2017-02-28
CPC Classifications: G06F,H03M

Claim:
1. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing computer-executable instructions that when executed by a computer cause the computer to perform a method, the method comprising: accessing status data concerning a storage device in a tiered archive system, where the status data identifies an availability of the storage device, a capacity of the storage device, or a reliability of the storage device, where the tiered archive system includes an erasure code based object store or a non-object storage device, where the tiered archive system includes a plurality of devices arranged in different tiers, where the different tiers provide different levels of redundancy at different costs, and where accessing the status data includes receiving the status data from the storage device using a push model without querying the device; upon determining that the tiered archive system includes a threshold number of non-object storage devices: upon determining that the tiered archive system includes less than the threshold number of non-object storage devices: