Buffalo Assigned Patent

Buffalo Inc., Nagoya, Japan, has been assigned a patent (12189952) developed by Yamamoto; Yasuyuki, Nagoya, Japan, for “storage system and device to monitor performance and apply countermeasures to SMR and Non-SMR drives.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “A storage device includes a plurality of memory devices, and processing circuitry. The plurality of memory devices includes one or more hard disk drives. The processing circuitry is configured to inspect performance of the one or more hard disk drives at a predetermined timing; perform a first predetermined countermeasure processing, on a target hard disk drive out of the one or more hard disk drives whose performance has been determined to have fallen, in a case that the target hard disk drive is a shingled magnetic recording hard disk drive; and perform a second predetermined countermeasure processing, different from the first predetermined countermeasure processing, on the target hard disk drive, in a case that the target hard disk drive is not a shingled magnetic recording hard disk drive.”

The patent application was filed on 2022-09-08 (17/939976).