Invention Grant
US08380919B2 Flash storage device, data storage system, and data writing method
有权
Flash存储设备,数据存储系统和数据写入方式
- Patent Title: Flash storage device, data storage system, and data writing method
- Patent Title (中): Flash存储设备,数据存储系统和数据写入方式
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Application No.: US12765060Application Date: 2010-04-22
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Publication No.: US08380919B2Publication Date: 2013-02-19
- Inventor: I-Pao Chen
- Applicant: I-Pao Chen
- Applicant Address: TW Jhubei, Hsinchu County
- Assignee: Silicon Motion, Inc.
- Current Assignee: Silicon Motion, Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: TW Jhubei, Hsinchu County
- Agency: McClure, Qualey & Rodack, LLP
- Priority: TW98140070A 20091125
- Main IPC: G11C16/04
- IPC: G11C16/04 ; G06F12/00

Abstract:
The invention provides a flash storage device. In one embodiment, the flash storage device comprises a flash memory and a controller. The flash memory comprises a plurality of storage units for data storage, wherein the total capacity of each of the storage units is equal to a storage unit capacity. When the flash storage device receives a read capacity command from a host, the controller determines the size of a logical block to be a specific multiple of the storage unit capacity, and sends information about the logical block size to the host in response to the read capacity command, wherein the specific multiple is a natural number. After the host receives the information from the flash storage device, the host retrieves the logical block size from the information, and sends only write data with an amount equal to a multiple of the logical block size to the flash storage device.
Public/Granted literature
- US20110125955A1 FLASH STORAGE DEVICE, DATA STORAGE SYSTEM, AND DATA WRITING METHOD Public/Granted day:2011-05-26
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