Abstract: A portable fire pit assembly for facilitating an open flame to be portable includes a wheelbarrow that has a bucket and a pair of handles. The bucket is comprised of a flame resistant material thereby facilitating the bucket to contain an open flame. The bucket has a plurality of apertures extending therethrough to pass air into the bucket for enhancing combustion. A grill is removably positioned on the wheelbarrow having the grill being positioned over the open flame.

Abstract: A disk array system and method which maintains a minimum data delivery requirement or minimum quality of service during varying conditions. The present invention utilizes the alternate data paths available to maintain minimum data delivery requirements under varying types of conditions, including both normal and degraded conditions as well as transitions between these conditions. According to the present invention, the disk controller receives a data read request from the host and issues a plurality of read requests for the data using a plurality of different data paths. These read requests operate in parallel to retrieve the desired data from the drives using the different data paths. Thus, if one or more of the requests falls, the other requests being performed contemporaneously will soon complete or will have completed returning the correct data. This guarantees that the correct data is returned even in instances where one or more of the data paths returns incorrect data.