Patent ID: 7743283

Claim:
A system for servicing storage devices of a storage system, the system comprising: the storage system comprising a set of one or more storage devices, a monitoring module, and a testing module; the monitoring module configured for monitoring, according to a set of one or more monitoring parameters stored in a monitoring parameters data container, storage devices of the storage system, wherein: the set of monitoring parameters are not encoded as code instructions of the monitoring module; the monitoring parameters data container is external to the monitoring module; and the monitoring parameters comprises at least one error threshold and at least one recommended action upon reaching an error threshold for a flagged storage device, the recommended action comprising direct testing of the flagged storage device by the testing module; and the testing module configured for: logically removing flagged storage devices from the set of storage devices of the storage system; and testing flagged storage devices, according to a set of one or more testing parameters stored in a testing parameters data container, wherein the set of testing parameters are not encoded as code instructions of the testing module and the testing parameters data container is external to the testing module.