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Date of Patent:
Jul. 14, 2015

Filed:

Feb. 04, 2013
Applicant:

Ocz Technology Group Inc., San Jose, CA (US);

Inventors:

Franz Michael Schuette, Colorado Springs, CO (US);

Yaron Klein, Raanana, IL;

Hyun Mo Chung, San Jose, CA (US);

Assignee:

OCZ Storage Solutions Inc., San Jose, CA (US);

Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 12/00 (2006.01); G11C 16/10 (2006.01); G06F 12/02 (2006.01); G06F 12/08 (2006.01); G06F 12/12 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 12/0246 (2013.01); G06F 12/0871 (2013.01); G06F 12/122 (2013.01); G06F 2212/214 (2013.01); G06F 2212/222 (2013.01); G06F 2212/225 (2013.01);
Abstract

A solid-state mass storage device for use with host computer systems, and methods of increasing the endurance of non-volatile memory components thereof that define a first non-volatile memory space. The mass storage device further has a second non-volatile memory space containing at least one non-volatile memory component having a higher write endurance than the memory components of the first non-volatile memory space. The second non-volatile memory space functions as a low-pass filter for host writes to the first non-volatile memory space to minimize read accesses to the first non-volatile memory space. Contents of the second non-volatile memory space are managed using a change counter.


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