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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 12, 2016
Filed:
Mar. 10, 2015
Dell Products L.p., Round Rock, TX (US);
William F. Sauber, Georgetown, TX (US);
Mukund P. Khatri, Austin, TX (US);
Dell Products L.P., Round Rock, TX (US);
Abstract
In accordance with the present disclosure, a system and method for performing a system memory save in tiered or cached storage during transition to a decreased power state is disclosed. As disclosed herein, the system incorporating aspects of the present invention may include a solid-state drive, volatile memory, and at least one alternate storage media. Upon transition to a decreased power state, at least some of the data in the solid-state drive may be transferred to the at least one alternate storage media. After the SSD data is transferred, data stored in volatile system memory, such as a system context, may be transferred to the SSD memory. With the system context saved in SSD memory, power to the volatile system memory may be turned off.