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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 28, 2017
Filed:
Feb. 06, 2015
Applicant:
Hgst Netherlands B.v., Amsterdam, NL;
Inventors:
Siddharth Choudhuri, Irvine, CA (US);
Haining Liu, Irvine, CA (US);
Yuriy Pavlenko, Mission Viejo, CA (US);
Assignee:
Western Digital Technologies, Inc., Irvine, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 12/00 (2006.01); G06F 3/06 (2006.01); G06F 12/02 (2006.01); G06F 12/08 (2016.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/0608 (2013.01); G06F 3/0619 (2013.01); G06F 3/0652 (2013.01); G06F 3/0653 (2013.01); G06F 3/0683 (2013.01); G06F 3/0689 (2013.01); G06F 12/0253 (2013.01); G06F 12/0269 (2013.01); G06F 12/0276 (2013.01); G06F 12/0888 (2013.01); G06F 2212/1032 (2013.01); G06F 2212/604 (2013.01);
Abstract
A storage device may include a plurality of memory devices, and a controller. The controller may be configured to perform garbage collection to reclaim one or more blocks included in a particular memory device of the plurality of memory devices by at least: removing the particular memory device from the set of write-eligible memory devices; reading data from the one or more blocks included in the particular memory device; and returning the particular memory device to the set of write-eligible memory devices.