System for increasing utilization of storage media
US8650362B2 · kind B2 · utility
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| Filing date | Apr 13, 2010 |
| Grant date | Feb 11, 2014 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Mar 11, 2031 |
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- Technology area (CPC G)Physics
- CPC primaryG06F11/2094
- WIPO fieldComputer technology
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
A storage system creates an abstraction of flash Solid State Device (SSD) media allowing random write operations of arbitrary size by a user while performing large sequential write operations of a uniform size to an SSD array. This reduces the number of random write operations performed in the SSD array and as a result increases performance of the SSD array. A control element determines when blocks from different buffers should be combined together or discarded based on fragmentation and read activity. This optimization scheme increases memory capacity and improves memory utilization and performance.
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