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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 16, 2025
Filed:
Oct. 03, 2023
Sandisk Technologies, Inc., Milpitas, CA (US);
Amit Sharma, Bangalore, IN;
Dinesh Kumar Agarwal, Bangalore, IN;
Sandisk Technologies, Inc., Milpitas, CA (US);
Abstract
A data storage device and method for delaying execution of a host write command to perform an internal memory operation. In one embodiment, a data storage device is provided comprising a memory with single-level cell (SLC) blocks and multi-level cell (MLC) blocks, as well as a controller. The controller is configured to store, in a queue, a plurality of write commands received from a host, wherein each write command is associated with a timeout window; determine how long each of the plurality of write commands has been pending in the queue; and for each write command, delay execution of the write command within the write command's timeout window until the write command has been pending in the queue for a specified amount of time, wherein delaying execution of each write command provides the controller with time to perform a memory operation to increase an amount of available SLC blocks in the memory. Other embodiments are provided.