Dynamic garbage collection P/E policies for redundant storage blocks and distributed software stacks

A Solid State Drive (SSD), comprising:

• storage for data;
• reception circuitry to receive an instruction from a host machine to perform garbage collection, the instruction including a Program/Erase (P/E) strategy to be used by the SSD, the P/E strategy to be used by the SSD being one of at least a default P/E strategy and an adaptive P/E strategy;
• garbage collection logic to perform garbage collection responsive to the reception circuitry receiving the instruction to perform garbage collection, the garbage collection logic including a Program logic to perform a Program operation during garbage collection according to the P/E strategy, the garbage collection logic implementing at least the default P/E strategy and the adaptive P/E strategy;
• Dynamic Random Access Memory (RAM) to cache a copy of the at least one page in the victim block on the SSD;
• and a SSD controller operative that, based at least in part on the instruction including the adaptive P/E strategy-being-used, is operative to copy the at least one page from the victim block to a cached copy in the Dynamic RAM before erasing the victim block and to copy the cached copy to the second block after erasing the victim block without copying the at least one page to a second block on the SSD before erasing the victim block.