发明名称 POWER FAIL CIRCUIT FOR MULTI-STORAGE-DEVICE ARRAYS
摘要 Some embodiments include a multi-storage-device array (e.g., a SSD tray, a SSD sled or a SSD rack) having multiple drives (e.g., solid-state drives). The multi-storage-device array can have an enclosure around the drives, a processor and a network interface, and implement a power failure management circuit. The power failure management circuit can include an electric probe that detects a power failure. Upon detecting the power failure, the power failure management circuit sends an interrupt signal to a drive controller to flush data in volatile-memory (e.g., write cache, firmware cache, look-up table cache, or other random access memory) into non-volatile memory (e.g., flash memory). The power failure management circuit can include a system-level holdup energy storage that retains power after power failure to support flushing of the data from the volatile memory during the power failure.
申请公布号 US2016283336(A1) 申请公布日期 2016.09.29
申请号 US201514670758 申请日期 2015.03.27
申请人 Facebook, Inc. 发明人 Petersen Christian Markus
分类号 G06F11/20;G06F1/30 主分类号 G06F11/20
代理机构 代理人
主权项 1. A computer-implemented method of operating a multi-storage-device array, comprising: monitoring an electric probe to a power-related component in the multi-storage-device array; determining whether power delivery, via the power-related component, to the multi-storage-device array is functioning abnormally; responsive to determining that the power delivery is functioning abnormally, generating an interrupt signal to a storage device in the multi-storage-device array; and providing backup power from a system-level holdup energy storage to the storage device without providing the backup power to a client request processor of the multi-storage-device array.
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