Active recycling for solid state drive

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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 9176866
APP PUB NO 20150074327A1
SERIAL NO

14080950

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A solid state drive and a method for providing active recycling for the solid state drive are disclosed. The solid state drive includes a plurality of blocks and each of the plurality of blocks includes a plurality of pages. The method steps include receiving a read request from a data requester; identifying at least one page containing data requested by the read request; determining whether the at least one page belongs to a block identified for active recycling; writing the at least one page to a different block when the at least one page belongs to the block identified for active recycling; and sending the at least one page to the data requester in response to the read request.

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  • SEAGATE TECHNOLOGY LLC

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Inventor Name Address # of filed Patents Total Citations
Ma, Lizhao Shanghai, CN 2 11
Xu, Peng Shanghai, CN 636 4308

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