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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 30, 2014
Filed:
Jan. 03, 2011
Applicants:
Daniel L Rosenband, Cambridge, MA (US);
Michael John Sebastian Smith, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Inventors:
Daniel L Rosenband, Cambridge, MA (US);
Michael John Sebastian Smith, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Assignee:
Other;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 12/02 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
The invention is an improved storage array controller that adds a level of indirection between host system and storage array. The storage array controller controls a storage array comprising at least one solid-state storage device. The storage array controller improvements include: garbage collection, sequentialization of writes, combining of writes, aggregation of writes, increased reliability, improved performance, and addition of resources and functions to a computer system with a storage subsystem.