Effective capacity of driver segment pool generated from driver set

[0034] Embodiments of the present invention will now be described. It should be understood that the embodiments described herein are provided by way of example only in order to illustrate various features and principles of the disclosed technology and that the invention is broader than the specific embodiments described herein.

[0035] figure 1 is a block diagram illustrating an operating environment for the disclosed technology, including an example of a data storage system in which the disclosed technology may be implemented. figure 1 The operating environment includes a number of host computing devices 110, referred to as "hosts," and shown for purposes of illustration by hosts 110(1) through 110(N), such as by figure 1 The data storage provided by data storage system 116 is accessed by one or more computer networks, such as a local area network (LAN) and / or a wide area network (WAN), such as the Internet, shown by network 114 . Data storage system 116 includes at least o