Inventor
FORRER JR THOMAS R
US14 patents
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IBM
12 patentsUS7191286B2Mar 13, 2007
Data redundancy in individual hard drives
IBM18 citations83
US7653838B2Jan 26, 2010
Hard disk drive data scrub methodology
IBM7 citations73
US7346804B2Mar 18, 2008
Hard disk drive data scrub methodology
IBM6 citations73
US7240180B2Jul 3, 2007
Method and system for simultaneously supporting different block sizes on a single hard drive
IBM7 citations73
US6922833B2Jul 26, 2005
Adaptive fast write cache for storage devices
IBM7 citations72
US7882331B2Feb 1, 2011
Method and system for simultaneously supporting different block sizes on a single hard drive
IBM2 citations62
US7836247B2Nov 16, 2010
Method, apparatus, and computer program product for permitting access to a storage drive while the drive is being formatted
IBM4 citations62
US7346806B2Mar 18, 2008
Hard disk drive background scrub methodology
IBM6 citations62
US7310715B2Dec 18, 2007
Method, apparatus, and computer program product for using an array of high performance storage drives included in a storage array to reduce accessing of an array of lower performance storage drives included in the storage array
IBM5 citations60
US6865615B1Mar 8, 2005
Method and an apparatus for dynamically reconfiguring a system bus topology
IBM2 citations59
US7660978B2Feb 9, 2010
System and method to provide device unique diagnostic support with a single generic command
IBM2 citations52
US6744579B2Jun 1, 2004
Methods for detecting and mitigating the effects of hard drive head crashes
IBM0 citations51