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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 02, 2018
Filed:
Jun. 10, 2015
Applicant:
Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Suwon-si, Gyeonggi-do, KR;
Inventors:
Assignee:
SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD., Suwon-si, Gyeonggi-Do, KR;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 12/02 (2006.01); G06F 13/42 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 12/0253 (2013.01); G06F 12/0246 (2013.01); G06F 13/4282 (2013.01); G06F 2212/7201 (2013.01); G06F 2212/7205 (2013.01); Y02B 60/1228 (2013.01); Y02B 60/1235 (2013.01);
Abstract
A garbage collection method of a data storage system having storage devices is provided. The method includes determining whether a garbage collection is needed in one of the storage devices, transferring a multicast garbage collection command from one of the storage devices to at least one other storage device in a write group through a multicast operation, and performing the garbage collection in one of the storage devices.