摘要 |
A storage control apparatus capable of reducing a power consumption in network port units, including a host communication control unit 10 which includes a plurality of network ports 18 and which controls communications with a host computer 2 that is connectable through the network ports, a storage-device communication control unit 16 which controls communications with a plurality of storage devices, a plurality of DMA portions 111 by which data to be transmitted/received between the host computer and the storage devices are transferred between the host communication control unit 10 and the storage-device communication control unit 16, a plurality of cache memories 12 in which the data to be transferred by the DMA portions 111 are temporarily stored, and a power saving control portion 110 which stops the DMA portion 111 and the cache memory 12 that are previously associated with one network port, on the basis of a connection situation of the pertinent network port with the host computer and a data rate to be inputted/outputted to/from the pertinent port.
|