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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 31, 2017
Filed:
May. 08, 2012
Albert T. Borchers, Aptos, CA (US);
Albert T. Borchers, Aptos, CA (US);
Google Inc., Mountain View, CA (US);
Abstract
A data storage device includes multiple flash memory devices with each of the flash memory devices being arranged into multiple blocks having multiple pages for storing data. The data storage device includes a memory controller operationally coupled with the flash memory devices. The memory controller is configured to mark one or more of the pages of the flash memory devices as available for deletion and maintain the marked pages as available for being read until deleted during garbage collection.
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