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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 22, 2022
Filed:
Jun. 09, 2020
Qnap Systems, Inc., New Taipei, TW;
Tsu-Yu Wu, New Taipei, TW;
QNAP SYSTEMS, INC., New Taipei, TW;
Abstract
A method of increasing operational life time of SSD RAID and a storage equipment using same, the method including: configuring a data storage device to have a plurality of storage areas, each storage area including a plurality of stripes, and each stripe including an individual block of a plurality of solid state disks, where at least one block in each stripe is a check bit block, the other blocks are data blocks; and configuring two neighboring stripes in each storage area to form a composite stripe according to a plurality of index combinations in a mapping table, where the composite stripe includes two neighboring blocks in each solid state disk, and the composite stripe is divided into a stripe writing area and an empty stripe area, so that each solid state disk in each storage area has a reserved space.