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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 04, 2018
Filed:
Dec. 04, 2014
Hgst Netherlands B.v., Amsterdam, NL;
Ashish Singhai, Los Altos, CA (US);
Ashwin Narasimha, Los Altos, CA (US);
Ajith Kumar, Bangalore, IN;
Western Digital Technologies, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
Systems and methods for managing the endurance of a solid state drive by assigning error corrective codes (ECC) to a plurality of solid state drive blocks are provided. The disclosed systems and methods can provide a plurality of error corrective codes, each code having a corresponding correction capability and assign to each solid state drive block an error corrective code, according to a reliability of the solid state drive block. Moreover, the disclosed systems and methods can group the solid state drive blocks into groups according to their assigned error corrective codes and apply, for each group of solid state drive block, a level of ECC correction according to the assigned error corrective code of each group.