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Date of Patent:
Dec. 27, 2022

Filed:

Jun. 03, 2021
Applicant:

Western Digital Technologies, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);

Inventors:

Ramanathan Muthiah, Bangalore, IN;

Rakesh Balakrishnan, Bangalore, IN;

Eldhose Peter, Bangalore, IN;

Judah Gamliel Hahn, Ofra, IL;

Assignee:
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/06 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/064 (2013.01); G06F 3/0619 (2013.01); G06F 3/0635 (2013.01); G06F 3/0659 (2013.01); G06F 3/0679 (2013.01);
Abstract

The present disclosure generally relates to creating new zones in a data storage device in a manner that ensures substantially even workload of the memory device storage locations. When receiving a zone open command in a zone namespace (ZNS) system, rather than randomly selecting an unopen zone, zones may be categorized based upon storage location workload so that any new zone that is opened utilizes the least utilized storage location. In so doing, generally even workload of the memory device storage locations is achieved.


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