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AssigneeSeagate Technology LLC
InventorsMehmet Emin Aklik, Antoine Khoueir, Darshana H. Mehta, Nicholas Lien
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Read error mitigation in solid-state memory devices. A solid-state drive (SSD) includes a read error mitigation module that monitors one or more memory regions. In response to detecting uncorrectable read errors, memory regions of the memory device may be identified and preemptively retired. Example approaches include identifying a memory region as being suspect such that upon repeated read failures within the memory region, the memory region is retired. Moreover, memory regions may be compared to peer memory regions to determine when to retire a memory region. The read error mitigation module may trigger a test procedure on a memory region to detect the susceptibility of a memory region to read error failures. By detecting read error failures and retirement of a memory regions, data loss and/or data recovery processes may be limited to improve drive performance and reliability.
A method for detection of read errors in a solid-state memory device to proactively detect failure of the device, the method comprising:
A memory device for mitigation of memory read errors, comprising:
One or more tangible processor-readable storage media embodied with instructions for executing on one or more processors and circuits of a memory device a process for read error mitigation comprising:
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