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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 12, 2021
Filed:
Apr. 05, 2016
Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development Lp, Houston, TX (US);
Siamak Nazari, Mountain View, CA (US);
Thomas David Evans, Bellevue, WA (US);
Faris Hindi, Fremont, CA (US);
Daniel Aaron Harbaugh, Bellevue, WA (US);
Anahita Afkham, Milpitas, CA (US);
Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP, Houston, TX (US);
Abstract
In some examples, sectors of a solid-state drive are unmapped to initialize the sectors. The sectors include a data portion and a protection portion. When an unmapped sector is read, the solid-state drive can return a pre-set value for the unmapped sector, where the pre-set value includes a known fixed value to represent the protection portion of the unmapped sector. The storage controller is to recognize the known fixed value returned by the solid-state drive responsive to the read as representing the unmapped sector as being initialized, but not written to.