Patent ID: 8234448

Claim:
A method for reading data from a redundancy protected storage system with two or more storage units, each storage unit having an associated storage unit controller and an associated FIFO buffer, the method comprising the steps of: issuing a read request to the two or more storage units; determining the number of storage units having data available for reading in the associated FIFO buffer; reading the available data when at least a minimum number of storage units has data available for reading in the associated FIFO buffer; reconstructing missing data from the read data; defining one or more synchronization points within the data requested in the read request; discarding data up to a next synchronization point from the associated FIFO buffers of those storage units that do not have data available for reading in the associated FIFO buffer; and making available data starting from the next synchronization point in the associated FIFO buffers of those storage units for which data have been discarded from the associated FIFO buffers.