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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 06, 2016
Filed:
Mar. 15, 2013
Google Inc., Mountain View, CA (US);
Manuel Enrique Benitez, Cupertino, CA (US);
Monish Shah, Dublin, CA (US);
Google Inc., Mountain View, CA (US);
Abstract
A data storage device includes a plurality of flash memory devices. A memory controller is configured to receive a request from a host computing device to write a first logical block of application data to the data storage device, write the first logical block to a data buffer, wherein a size of the data buffer is larger than the logical block and may store multiple logical blocks, write one or more logical blocks of garbage-collected data to the data buffer, and write the logical blocks in the data buffer to the data storage device when the data buffer becomes full. The data buffer written to the data storage device includes at least one logical block of application data and at least one logical block of garbage-collected data. In an alternative implementation, garbage-collected data may be written to the data buffer upon expiration of a timer.