A method of data exchange between volumes without using any unnecessary resource in a storage system includes allocating cache areas for data exchange on a memory, determining the location of data to be exchanged, reading out data from the determined location in source and destination volumes and storing data in their respective caches, and writing data stored in the cache to thus determined location of the volume different from the one that the data was read out.

 
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