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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 21, 2018
Filed:
Jul. 31, 2015
Sandisk Technologies Llc, Plano, TX (US);
Alan W. Sinclair, Edmonton, GB;
SANDISK TECHNOLOGIES LLC, Plano, TX (US);
Abstract
System and method for transferring data between a host system and a data storage system is provided. The system includes an interface that uses a file based protocol to transfer data between the data storage system and the host system, wherein the data storage system includes a first mass storage device and a second mass storage device; wherein the first mass storage device is a solid state non-volatile memory device and the second mass storage device is a non-solid state memory device. The first mass storage device is a flash memory device that operates as a primary storage device that stores data on a file by file basis. The second mass storage device is a magnetic disk drive that operates as secondary storage device and stores data received via a logical interface.