Hard discs constituting a disc array system are arranged at locations far
from one another so as to eliminate their simultaneous damage due to a
local disaster and concentration of the processing load thereby
suppressing the recovery time upon hard disc failure. It is possible to
realize continuous operation without system down even when the other
disasters have occurred.A plurality of hard disc devices are arranged at
different locations far from one another, write-in data from a server
device is mapped by the RAID method, and a data packet added by the RAID
information and the error correction code is distributed to the
respective hard discs. Moreover, the line connection device for
performing data transfer to the hard disc device has the RAID control
function while the main control device is dedicated to monitoring of the
hard disc devices and data recovery process upon occurrence of a failure.
Moreover, backup of the restored data is transmitted to the server device
during a failure recovery process so that recovery re-execution can
easily be performed by using the backup when data recovery has not
terminated normally.