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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 11, 2022
Filed:
May. 31, 2017
Seagate Technology Llc, Fremont, CA (US);
Nitin Satishchandra Kabra, Mohammadwadi Pune, IN;
Jackson Ellis, Fort Collins, CO (US);
Niranjan Anant Pol, Erandwane Pune, IN;
Mark Ish, Castro Valley, CA (US);
Seagate Technology LLC, Fremont, CA (US);
Abstract
A hybrid storage device with three-level memory mapping is provided. An illustrative device comprises a primary storage device comprising a plurality of primary sub-blocks; a cache memory device comprising a plurality of cache sub-blocks implemented as a cache for the primary storage device; and a controller configured to map at least one portion of one or more primary sub-blocks of the primary storage device stored in the cache to a physical location in the cache memory device using at least one table identifying portions of the primary storage device that are cached in one or more of the cache sub-blocks of the cache memory device, wherein a size of the at least one table is independent of a capacity of the primary storage device.