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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 16, 2016
Filed:
Sep. 26, 2013
Western Digital Technologies, Inc., Irvine, CA (US);
Dean V. Dang, Fountain Valley, CA (US);
Colin W. Morgan, Mission Viejo, CA (US);
Kent W. Gibbons, Yorba Linda, CA (US);
Western Digital Technologies, Inc., Irvine, CA (US);
Abstract
A data storage system including a plurality of storage devices, each of the storage devices in the plurality of storage devices comprising a plurality of logical block addresses ('LBAs') and configured to be in a first operating mode or a second operating mode, wherein the second operating mode comprises a reduced power mode relative to the first operating mode, and a bridge configured to be connected to the plurality of storage devices and a host configured to transmit a host command to access an LBA. The bridge is configured to receive the host command to access the LBA, determine a storage device in the plurality of storage devices where the LBA is located, and indicate only to the storage device where the LBA is located, that the storage device where the LBA is located should transition from the second operating mode to the first operating mode.