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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 17, 2013
Filed:
Sep. 07, 2012
Gwoyuh Hwu, Cupertino, CA (US);
Lau Nguyen, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Gwoyuh Hwu, Cupertino, CA (US);
Lau Nguyen, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Marvell International Ltd., Hamilton, BM;
Abstract
A solid-state drive, a solid-state drive access unit allocation/data storage approach, and a solid-state drive access unit access/data retrieval approach are described that improve the efficiency with which data, that has been stored to the solid-state drive in association with a series of logical block addresses, can be retrieved from the solid-state drive. The described access unit allocation approach assures that data stored in the solid-state drive in association with a sequential series of logical block addresses is stored and maintained in solid-state drive access units, i.e., addressable units of solid-state drive memory that allow parallel read access to the data via parallel memory access I/O channels internal to the solid-state drive. In this manner, the time required to retrieve data associated with a sequential series of logical block addresses from corresponding access units within the solid-state drive is reduced.