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Article: Colorado Inventors Develop Disk Drive Size Coercion System

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November 8, 2007
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ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 8 -- Lawrence J. Rawe of Colorado Springs, Colo., have developed a disk drive size coercion method.

An abstract of the invention, released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, said: "The present invention is a method for coercing disk drive capacity in a redundant array of independent disks (RAID) configuration. The method includes the step of determining actual disk drive capacities of a first disk drive and a second disk drive in the RAID configuration. If the actual disk drive capacities of the first disk drive and the second disk drive differ, the method further includes multiplying the smaller actual disk drive capacity by a coercion ratio to establish an ...

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