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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 27, 2021
Filed:
Feb. 01, 2019
Applicant:
Western Digital Technologies, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Inventors:
Assignee:
Western Digital Technologies, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/06 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/0659 (2013.01); G06F 3/0604 (2013.01); G06F 3/064 (2013.01); G06F 3/0673 (2013.01);
Abstract
Disclosed is an apparatus including a memory system. The memory system includes a controller that assigns a first PEC to a first metablock based on a first number of structures of a memory across which the first metablock is distributed. The controller assigns a second PEC to a second metablock based on a second number of the structures of the memory across which the second metablock is distributed. The controller selects one of the first metablock or the second metablock to be used based on the first PEC and the second PEC.