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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 07, 2017
Filed:
Jan. 16, 2014
Pure Storage, Mountain View, CA (US);
John Davis, Mountain View, CA (US);
Ethan Miller, Mountain View, CA (US);
Brian Gold, Mountain View, CA (US);
John Colgrove, Mountain View, CA (US);
Peter Vajgel, Mountain View, CA (US);
John Hayes, Mountain View, CA (US);
Alex Ho, Mountain View, CA (US);
Pure Storage, Inc., Mountain View, CA (US);
Abstract
A method for managing flash memory is provided. The method includes determining at least one property of a data and determining to which type of a plurality of types of flash memory to write the data, based on the at least one property of the data. The plurality of types of flash memory includes at least two types of flash memory having differing numbers of bits per cell. The method includes writing the data to a flash memory of the determined type. A nonvolatile memory manager and a system are provided.