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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 15, 2021
Filed:
Nov. 14, 2018
Western Digital Technologies, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Mohammad R. Sadri, Santa Ana, CA (US);
Siddharth Choudhuri, Santa Ana, CA (US);
WESTERN DIGITAL TECHNOLOGIES, INC., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
In one aspect, the present disclosure relates to a method of de-duplicating data in a solid state storage device. The method can include receiving a block of data to be written to a solid state storage device, wherein the block of data comprises header portion and a payload, wherein the header portion comprises context information; and determining whether the payload should be de-duplicated prior to storage, based on the context information stored within the header portion; if the payload is determined to be de-duplicated, de-duplicating the payload; and storing the de-duplicated payload to the solid state storage device.