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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 14, 2019
Filed:
Mar. 05, 2018
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Charles J. Camp, Sugar Land, TX (US);
Timothy J. Fisher, Cypress, TX (US);
Kevin E. Sallese, Fulshear, TX (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A storage system includes a controller connected to a solid state memory device. The controller releases the physical address for reassignment when no pending reads are associated with the physical address. In certain embodiments, a read status table may be included within the storage system. In certain embodiments, subsequent to the release of the physical address, erase operations may erase data at the physical address and the physical address may be reassigned to a new logical address by ensuing host write operations.