Patent attributes
Incremental RAID stripe update parity calculation includes receiving a first portion of data of a RAID stripe for writing to a first memory location of a plurality of solid state drives. A first parity value is calculated for the first portion of data of the RAID stripe. A second portion of data of the RAID stripe is received for writing to a second memory location that is different from the first memory location A second parity value is calculated in dependence upon the second portion of the data of the RAID stripe and upon the first parity value Responsive to successfully writing the second portion of data of the RAID stripe, the first parity value is replaced with the second parity value.