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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 19, 2010
Filed:
Aug. 28, 2006
Applicant:
Xiaoming Jiang, Odawara, JP;
Inventor:
Xiaoming Jiang, Odawara, JP;
Assignee:
Hitachi, Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 12/00 (2006.01); G06F 13/00 (2006.01); G06F 13/28 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A storage system includes: a flash disk having a plurality of flash memory units; a management table for hierarchically managing the write life of each flash memory unit on a specified storage area basis; and a controller for hierarchically distributing write-processing to the flash memory according to the management table.