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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 25, 2025
Filed:
Feb. 28, 2024
Pure Storage, Inc., Santa Clara, CA (US);
Ronald Karr, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Peter Kirkpatrick, Los Altos, CA (US);
Hari Kannan, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
PURE STORAGE, INC., Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
A storage system is provided. The storage system includes a plurality of storage nodes configured to provide storage services for the storage system. A respective storage node comprises a processing device, a memory, network interfaces, and a plurality of device interfaces supporting hot-pluggable managed flash storage devices. A respective managed flash storage device comprises flash memory and a storage device controller supporting a set of commands for the respective storage node to access and optimize use of the flash memory for use in the storage system, wherein at least a subset of the managed flash storage devices further comprise memory and energy storage for staging writes, and for storing metadata for the storage system.