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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 10, 2018
Filed:
May. 05, 2016
Marvell International Ltd., Hamilton, BM;
Marvell International Ltd., Hamilton, BM;
Abstract
The present disclosure includes apparatus, systems, computer readable storage media and techniques relating to virtualization of data storage space. In one aspect, a system includes: solid-state drive (SSD) devices, wherein each of the SSD devices includes contiguous portions; and a data storage controller configured to assign a priority value to each of available ones of the contiguous portions of the respective SSD devices, based on weighted criteria, and choose a subset of the available ones of the contiguous portions of the respective SSD devices, in accordance with the assigned priority values, to form a logical disk; wherein the logical disk includes at least one available portion from each of two or more of the SSD devices.