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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 16, 2025
Filed:
Feb. 02, 2024
Micron Technology, Inc., Boise, ID (US);
Michael Sheperek, Longmont, CO (US);
Larry J. Koudele, Erie, CO (US);
Steven S. Williams, Longmont, CO (US);
Micron Technology, Inc., Boise, ID (US);
Abstract
A system includes a memory device and a processing device, operatively coupled to the memory device. The processing device initializes a block family associated with the memory device and a timer associated with the block family. In response to the timer reaching a soft closure value, the processing device performs a soft closure of the block family and a hard closure of the block family in response to a first of the timer reaching a hard closure value or the block family satisfying a hard closure criteria. The processing device detects a first write amplification of a previously closed block family that employed the hard closure value and increases the hard closure value by an amount of time calculated to reduce a second write amplification, of the block family, to below a threshold write amplification.