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Date of Patent:
Apr. 24, 2018

Filed:

Mar. 11, 2016
Applicant:

Marvell International Ltd., Hamilton, BM;

Inventors:

Wei Zhou, San Jose, CA (US);

Chee Hoe Chu, San Jose, CA (US);

Po-Chien Chang, Saratoga, CA (US);

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 12/02 (2006.01); G06F 11/10 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 11/1088 (2013.01); G06F 12/0246 (2013.01); G06F 2212/7211 (2013.01);
Abstract

Embodiments of the present invention provide a method comprising performing an operation on a first flash drive of a plurality of flash drives configured in a parallel flash drive architecture, wherein the operation occupies a flash controller corresponding to the first flash drive, sending a signal to a processor coupled with the parallel flash drive architecture to indicate that the flash controller is occupied, and writing data to two or more of the plurality of flash drives, other than the first flash drive, by striping the data amongst the two or more of the plurality of flash drives in response to the signal to the processor. Other embodiments may be described and/or claimed.


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