Disk array device
View Patent ↗A disk array device can carry out battery backup including a destage process of data by a battery mounted in a case body of the disk array device and can enhance instantaneous power failure durability to an instantaneous power failure. A logic box mounts a channel controlling unit, a disk controlling unit, a cache memory and a switch; and a hard disk box mounts a plurality of memory devices. A battery box mounts a nickel hydrogen battery for supplying a backup power source at the time of a power failure and is disposed at a lower portion of each case body including the logic box and the hard disk box. The nickel hydrogen battery of the battery box is cooled through natural convection of air created inside the case body by a fan for cooling each of the logic box and the hard disk box.
1. A disk array device having a logic mounting unit and a memory device mounting packaging unit, the disk array device comprising:
a fan for cooling each of said logic mounting unit and said memory device mounting unit; and
a case body accommodating each of said logic mounting unit and said memory device mounting unit,
wherein said logic mounting unit mounts: a channel controlling unit to which a higher-level device is connected and that performs data transfer control; a disk controlling unit to which a memory device is connected and that performs data transfer control; a cache memory into which data to be transferred between said higher-level device and said memory device is stored temporarily; a shared memory into which control information communicated by said channel controlling unit and said disk controlling unit is stored; and a connecting unit to which said channel controlling unit, said disk controlling unit, said cache memory, and said shared memory are connected,
said memory device mounting unit mounts a plurality of said memory devices,
a battery mounting unit that mounts a nickel hydrogen battery for supplying a backup power source at the time of a power failure is disposed at a lower portion of said case body, and
said nickel hydrogen battery in said battery mounting unit disposed at the lower portion of said case body is cooled by natural convection of air inside said case body by said fan.
2. A disk array device according to claim 1 , wherein said battery mounting unit carries out connection in said case body, by board feed connection using a connector.
3. A disk array device according to claim 1 , wherein said battery mounting unit mounts a capacitor that supplies the backup power source at the time of an instantaneous power failure.
4. A disk array device according to claim 1 , wherein said battery mounting unit has a slit for making said air come through an inside of said battery mounting unit.
5. A disk array device according to claim 1 , wherein said battery mounting unit has, on a front surface thereof, a display unit indicating a condition of said battery mounting unit and a charge condition of said nickel hydrogen battery.
6. A disk array device including a storage controlling unit with a logic mounting unit and a storage driving unit with a memory device mounting unit, the disk array device comprising:
a fan for cooling each of said logic mounting unit and said memory device mounting unit; and
a case body for accommodating said storage controlling unit and a case body accommodating said storage driving unit,
wherein said logic mounting unit mounts: a channel controlling unit to which a higher-level device is connected and that performs data transfer control; a disk controlling unit to which a memory device is connected and that performs data transfer control; a cache memory into which data to be transferred between said higher-level device and said memory device is stored temporarily; a shared memory into which control information communicated by said channel controlling unit and said disk controlling unit is stored; and a connecting unit to which said channel controlling unit, said disk controlling unit, said cache memory, and said shared memory are connected,
said memory device mounting unit mounts a plurality of said memory devices,
a battery mounting unit that mounts a nickel hydrogen battery for supplying a backup power source at the time of a power failure is disposed at each lower portion of the case body of said storage controlling unit and the case body of said storage driving unit, and
said nickel hydrogen battery in said battery mounting unit, which is disposed at each lower portion of the case body of said storage controlling unit and the case body of said storage driving unit, is cooled by natural convection of air created inside the case body of said storage controlling unit and the case body of said storage driving unit by said fan.
7. A disk array device according to claim 6 , wherein said battery mounting unit carries out connection in the case body of said storage controlling unit and the case body of said storage driving unit, by board feed connection using a connector.
8. A disk array device according to claim 6 , wherein said battery mounting unit mounts a capacitor for supplying the backup power source at the time of an instantaneous power failure.
9. A disk array device according to claim 6 , wherein said battery mounting unit has a slit for making said air come through an inside of said battery mounting unit.
10. A disk array device according to claim 6 , wherein said battery mounting unit has a display unit for indicating each of a condition of said battery mounting unit and a charge condition of said nickel hydrogen battery, on a front surface thereof.