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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 09, 2017
Filed:
Mar. 31, 2016
Applicant:
Emc Corporation, Hopkinton, MA (US);
Inventors:
Adrian Michaud, Carlisle, MA (US);
Dragan Savic, Brookline, MA (US);
Patrick J. Weiler, Northboro, MA (US);
Amnon Izhar, Brookline, MA (US);
Assignee:
EMC IP Holding Company LLC, Hopkinton, MA (US);
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G11C 16/06 (2006.01); G11C 29/00 (2006.01); G11C 16/20 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G11C 29/76 (2013.01); G11C 16/20 (2013.01);
Abstract
A system, computer program product, and computer-executable method of managing a solid state drive (SSD) in a data storage system, the system, computer program product, and computer-executable method including initializing the SSD to enable the SSD to request memory for bad block replacement, querying the SSD to determine a size of memory on the SSD reserved for dynamic over provisioning, and allocating a portion of the size of memory for bad block replacement.