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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 24, 2019
Filed:
Aug. 23, 2017
Applicant:
Western Digital Technologies, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Inventor:
Nicholas James Thomas, Edinburgh, GB;
Assignee:
Western Digital Technologies, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/06 (2006.01); G06F 12/02 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/0638 (2013.01); G06F 3/061 (2013.01); G06F 3/0656 (2013.01); G06F 3/0679 (2013.01); G06F 12/023 (2013.01);
Abstract
A method that uses a reduced logical and physical address field size for storing data having steps of receiving a set of data to write to a solid state drive, determining a logical address to the set of data, setting a logical offset of the set of data to be equal to a physical block offset modulo of the data and writing the set of data to the solid state drive in locations on solid state drive that accept a size of the address of the set of data is disclosed.