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Date of Patent:
Mar. 15, 2022

Filed:

Apr. 08, 2020
Applicant:

Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Suwon-si, KR;

Inventors:

Nima Elyasi, San Jose, CA (US);

Changho Choi, San Jose, CA (US);

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/06 (2006.01); G06F 12/02 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/0616 (2013.01); G06F 3/064 (2013.01); G06F 3/0619 (2013.01); G06F 3/0658 (2013.01); G06F 3/0679 (2013.01); G06F 12/0246 (2013.01); G06F 2212/7211 (2013.01);
Abstract

In a method for dynamic wear-levelling and load redirection in a solid-state drive (SSD) including one or more blocks, the method including: receiving, by a controller, a request to write data; calculating, by the controller, a vulnerability factor of the one or more blocks; selecting, by the controller, a target block from the one or more blocks to receive the request to write data; determining, by the controller, a status of the target block based on the vulnerability factor of the target block; writing, by the controller, the data to the target block based on the status of the target block; and updating, by the controller, a mapping table based on the data written to the target block.


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