Patent ID: 7644229
Filing Date: 2010-01-05
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A rapid search system in high capacity hard disk drive clusters, used to rapidly find a destination hard disk drive in the high capacity hard disk drive clusters, the high capacity hard disk drive clusters mainly comprising a plurality of hard disk drive cabinets, each hard disk drive cabinet comprising a plurality of hard disk drive drawers, and each hard disk drive drawer comprising a plurality of hard disk drives, the hard disk drive cabinets each having a hard disk drive cabinet code, the hard disk drive drawers each having a hard disk drive drawer code and the hard disk drives each having a hard disk drive code, the rapid search system comprising: a hard disk drive code database, for storing a plurality of hard disk location codes, wherein each hard disk location code includes the hard disk drive cabinet code, the hard disk drive drawer code and the hard disk drive code for accessing a hard disk drive; a designation module for designating a specific hard disk drive as a destination hard disk drive with a predetermined purpose based on the plurality of the hard disk location codes of the hard disk drive code database, and getting the hard disk drive cabinet code, the hard disk drive drawer code and the hard disk drive code of the destination hard disk drive; and a communication module for finding the destination hard disk drive by using the hard disk drive cabinet code, the hard disk drive drawer code and the hard disk drive code associated with the destination hard disk drive to communicate, with the destination hard disk drive without using a broadcast method.