Western Digital Technologies, Inc.

Sandisk Technologies Inc.

Sandisk Il Ltd.

David Landsman

Yehuda Hahn

Alan David Bennett

Daniel Lee Helmick

Liam Michael Parker

Peter Grayson

Horst-Christoph Georg Hellwig

Nir Perry

Matias Bjorling

Matias Bjørling

The present disclosure generally relates to methods of operating storage devices. The storage device comprises a controller and a media unit. The capacity of the media unit is divided into a plurality of zones. The controller is configured to make informed use of errors by update zone metadata to indicate one or more first logical block addresses were skipped and to indicate the next valid logical block address is available to store data. The controller is further configured to update zone metadata to recommend to the host device to reset one or more full zones, to recommend to the host device to transition one or more open zones to a full state, to alert the host device that one or more open zones have been transitioned to the full state, and to notify the host device of the writeable zone capacity of each of the plurality of zones.

Zoned namespaces in solid-state drives

A computing system having a host device and at least one client device having a lock used to prevent modification of data in the client device. A lock clear signal from the host device causes the client device to clear a lock used to prevent modification of data stored in at least a protected portion of the client device where the client device remains fully operational.

Peripheral device locking mechanism

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Mercer Island, WA, United States of America

David Landsman