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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 21, 2013
Filed:
Apr. 07, 2010
Robert S. Sprinkle, San Jose, CA (US);
Albert T. Borchers, Santa Cruz, CA (US);
Andrew T. Swing, Los Gatos, CA (US);
Robert S. Sprinkle, San Jose, CA (US);
Albert T. Borchers, Santa Cruz, CA (US);
Andrew T. Swing, Los Gatos, CA (US);
Google Inc., Mountain View, CA (US);
Abstract
A method of formatting a data storage device that includes a plurality of flash memory chips includes monitoring a failure rate of memory blocks of one or more flash memory chips of a storage device that has a first usable size for user space applications, estimating a future usable size of the data storage device based on the monitored failure rate, and defining, via a host coupled to the data storage device, a second usable size of the data storage device for user space applications based on the monitored failure rate.