Patent ID: 8539280

Claim:
A storage system capable of configuring a failover system by use of a first storage processing device to which first storage media are connected and a second storage processing device to which second storage media are connected, the storage system including: a communication interface configured to receive storage capacity information representing a storage capacity of the second storage media; and circuitry configured to: compare the storage capacity of the second storage media to a storage capacity of the first storage media; set a RAID level of the second storage media to a RAID level with lower redundancy than the RAID level of the first storage media, if the storage capacity of the second storage media is smaller than the storage capacity of the first storage media; and stop application of RAID scheme to the second storage media and store user data stored in the first storage media into the second storage media when the failover system cannot be configured by use of the second storage media having the RAID level with lower redundancy than the RAID level of the first storage media.