Composite solid state drive identification and optimization technologies
AssigneeMicrosoft Corporation
InventorsFrank J. Shu, Nathan S. Obr
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Abstract
Technologies for an operating system identifying SSD and CSSD devices based on a corresponding descriptor, and for optimizing operating system functionalities with respect to the SSD/CSSD device. Optimizations include disabling non-SSD/CSSD functionalities, such as HDD defragmentation, and by enabling SSD/CSSD specific functionalities, such as write optimization storage functionalities.
Claims20
A composite solid-state drive (“CSSD”) comprising description information and an interface, the CSSD configured for communicating the description information to a host via the interface, where the communicated description information identifies the CSSD as both a solid-state drive (“SSD”) and a composite solid-state drive as opposed to a conventional hard disk drive (“HDD”).
A composite solid-state drive (“CSSD”) comprising description information and an interface, the CSSD configured for communicating the description information to a host via the interface, where the communicated description information identifies, for each of a plurality of performance classes of memory comprised by the CSSD, a memory size, page size, and block size.
A computing device and at least one software module together configured for obtaining description information from a composite solid-state drive (“CSSD”), where the obtained description information identifies the CSSD as both a solid-state drive (“SSD”) and a composite solid-state drive as opposed to a conventional hard disk drive (“HDD”).
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.