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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 29, 2013
Filed:
Jun. 25, 2009
Mark Moshayedi, Newport Coast, CA (US);
William Calvert, Cranleigh, GB;
Stephen Russell Boorman, Bookham, GB;
Simon Mark Haynes, Send, GB;
Mark Moshayedi, Newport Coast, CA (US);
William Calvert, Cranleigh, GB;
Stephen Russell Boorman, Bookham, GB;
Simon Mark Haynes, Send, GB;
STEC, Inc., Santa Ana, CA (US);
Abstract
A flash storage device comprises a plurality of data blocks, each data block comprising a plurality of data segments, a system memory, and a controller. The controller is configured to cache in the system memory a plurality of data sectors to be written, to write to a first one of the plurality of data segments a first one of the plurality of data sectors, to write to the first one of the plurality of data segments a first portion of a second one of the plurality of data sectors, and to write to a second one of the plurality of data segments a second portion of the second one of the plurality of data sectors.