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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 25, 2014
Filed:
Jun. 29, 2011
Ho-fan Kang, San Diego, CA (US);
Cliff Pajaro, Costa Mesa, CA (US);
Ho-Fan Kang, San Diego, CA (US);
Cliff Pajaro, Costa Mesa, CA (US);
Western Digital Technologies, Inc., Irvine, CA (US);
Abstract
Embodiments of the invention are directed to systems and methods for improving wear leveling performance in solid-state memory. The embodiments described herein make more consistent the number of wear leveling operations that needs to be performed, so that sudden spikes in the number wear leveling operations may be reduced in solid-state memory. In one embodiment, a staggered threshold-based wear leveling approach is used to spread out the execution of wear leveling operations that otherwise would have been triggered in clusters. Under the staggered threshold-based approach, wear leveling is periodically triggered by different wear leveling thresholds that are associated with various units of solid-state memory such as a group of blocks, so that only a certain amount of units are wear leveled at any given time.