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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 18, 2020
Filed:
Jul. 07, 2017
Seagate Technology Llc, Cupertino, CA (US);
Matthew Lovell, Longmont, CO (US);
Thomas V. Spencer, Fort Collins, CO (US);
Ryan James Goss, Prior Lake, MN (US);
Seagate Technology LLC, Cupertino, CA (US);
Abstract
A data storage system may have a number of data storage devices that each have a non-volatile memory connected to a memory buffer. The memory buffer can consist of a map unit having a predetermined size. In receipt of a data sector into the map unit of the memory buffer, the data sector may be identified as a runt with a runt module connected to the memory buffer and the non-volatile memory. The runt module can generate and subsequently execute a runt handling plan to fill the size of the map unit before storing the filled map unit in the non-volatile memory.