Sandisk Technologies Inc.

Sagar Uttarwar

Dinesh Kumar Agarwal

Prasun Ratn

Disha Gundecha

Aspects of a storage device for providing superior sustained sequential write (SSW) performance are disclosed. A controller on the storage device allocates buffer space in the host memory buffers (HMBs) on the host device for storage of relocation data, i.e., data to be folded or compacted. The controller or a hardware element therein can therefore allocate local SRAM (including TRAM) for use in accommodating incoming host writes. The increased SRAM allocation of relocation data without an attendant increase in cost or size to the storage device enables the storage device to perform operations in parallel and substantially increase SSW performance metrics.

Allocation of host memory buffer for sustained sequential writes

Apparatus and method for writing data directly to multi-level cell (MLC) memory without folding or transferring of the data from single-level cell (SLC) memory to MLC memory are disclosed. A memory device, which includes the SLC memory and MLC memory, receives data from a host device. The memory device programs the data (such as the lower/middle/upper pages) from volatile memory into MLC memory, without transferring data from SLC memory. The memory device also stores part of the data (such as the lower/middle pages) in SLC memory as a backup in case of error. In particular, if the data is not properly programmed into the MLC memory, the data in SLC memory is used to program the data a second time into the MLC memory.

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Sagar Uttarwar