Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Solid state drive bad block management
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Application No.: US15087000Application Date: 2016-03-31
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Publication No.: US09646721B1Publication Date: 2017-05-09
- Inventor: Adrian Michaud , Dragan Savic , Patrick J. Weiler , Amnon Izhar
- Applicant: EMC Corporation
- Applicant Address: US MA Hopkinton
- Assignee: EMC IP Holding Company LLC
- Current Assignee: EMC IP Holding Company LLC
- Current Assignee Address: US MA Hopkinton
- Agent Krishnendu Gupta; Konrad R. Lee
- Main IPC: G11C16/06
- IPC: G11C16/06 ; G11C29/00 ; G11C16/20
Abstract:
A system, computer program product, and computer-executable method of managing a solid state drive (SSD) in a data storage system, the system, computer program product, and computer-executable method including initializing the SSD to enable the SSD to request memory for bad block replacement, querying the SSD to determine a size of memory on the SSD reserved for dynamic over provisioning, and allocating a portion of the size of memory for bad block replacement.
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