Patent ID: 7523285

Claim:
A method comprising: detecting a condition of a physical state of a first memory chip, wherein the condition acts as an indicator of excessive heating in the first chip; identifying a first portion of memory located within the first chip, and dividing the first portion into a plurality of first sub-portions; and moving at least one of the first sub-portions from the first chip to at least a second chip in response to detecting the condition indicating excessive heating in the first chip to facilitate ameliorating the excessive heating, wherein the first and second memory chips are within a first RAM array mirrored by a third and fourth memory chip within a second RAM array in a Redundant Array of Independent Devices (RAID) system; and wherein moving the contents of the first memory chip includes: identifying a second portion of memory located within the third memory chip, the second portion of memory mirroring the first portion of memory; dividing the second portion into a plurality of second sub-portions; and moving at least one of the second sub-portions from the third memory chip to at least the fourth memory chip prior to synchronizing the new memory locations between the first and second RAM arrays by moving the at least one first sub-portion in the first memory chip.