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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 28, 2020
Filed:
Jan. 20, 2017
Seagate Technology Llc, Cupertino, CA (US);
Alex Tang, Cupertino, CA (US);
Leonid Baryudin, San Jose, CA (US);
Timothy Canepa, Los Gatos, CA (US);
Mark Ish, Castro Valley, CA (US);
Jackson Ellis, Fort Collins, CO (US);
SEAGATE TECHNOLOGY LLC, Cupertino, CA (US);
Abstract
A garbage collection method comprises selecting one or blocks in a SSD of a hybrid drive for garbage collection; determining a state of data of the one or more selected blocks, wherein the state suggests a location and temperature of data; and executing a garbage collection efficiency and caching efficiency action on the data of the one or more selected blocks based on the determined state. The garbage collection process may utilize the state information provided by the cache layer of the hybrid drive to make decisions regarding data in the one or more selected blocks.