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Date of Patent:
Apr. 23, 2024

Filed:

Aug. 25, 2021
Applicant:

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

Inventors:

Ravishankar Surianarayanan, Bangalore, IN;

Matias Bjorling, Copenhagen, DK;

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/00 (2006.01); G06F 3/06 (2006.01); G06F 12/02 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/0655 (2013.01); G06F 3/0604 (2013.01); G06F 3/0679 (2013.01); G06F 12/0246 (2013.01); G06F 2212/7211 (2013.01);
Abstract

A data storage device includes a memory device and a controller coupled to the memory device. The memory device is arranged into at least a first super device and a second super device, each of the super devices having a plurality of active zones. The controller is configured to determine that each of the super devices includes both cold zones and hot zones, where a cold zone is a zone that is overwritten less than a hot zone. The controller is further configured to move cold zones from one super device to another super device upon determining that the another super device is below a threshold limit, where the threshold limit is a minimum free space to be maintained in a super device. The controller is further configured to move cold zones between super devices, such that the cold zones are concentrated in at least one super device.


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