System and Method for Using Solid State Storage Systems as a Cache for the Storage of Temporary Data

A solid state storage system comprising:

• at least one non-volatile storage device having a plurality of individually accessible blocks, each of the blocks having a plurality of individually accessible pages;
• a storage controller coupled to the non-volatile storage device for controlling storage access operations, the storage controller receiving a storage access operation to store data on the solid state storage system wherein the storage controller comprises logic that:
• identifies whether the storage access operation is a first-type write request for providing temporary storage of the data;
• and
• in response to the storage access operation being the first-type write request, initiating a first program cycle to store the data as temporary data within one or more of the blocks of the non-volatile storage device, wherein the first program cycle has an associated first set of parameters for temporary storage that are different from a second set of parameters for permanent storage within the non-volatile storage device, and wherein the non-volatile storage device provides both permanent data storage and temporary data storage based on a type of write request received to store the data.

An information handling system (IHS) comprising:

• one or more processors;
• a storage system coupled to the processor and in communication with the processor, the storage system comprising:
• at least one non-volatile storage device having a plurality of individually accessible blocks, each of the blocks having a plurality of individually accessible pages;
• and a storage controller coupled to the non-volatile storage device, the storage controller having firmware executing thereon to provide control of storage system operations wherein the firmware configures the storage controller to:
• identify whether the storage access operation is a first-type write request for providing temporary storage of the data;
• and
• in response to the storage access operation being the first-type write request, initiate a first program cycle to store the data as temporary data within one or more of the blocks of the non-volatile storage device, wherein the first program cycle has an associated first set of parameters for temporary storage that are different from a second set of parameters for permanent storage within the non-volatile storage device, and wherein the non-volatile storage device provides both permanent data storage and temporary data storage based on a type of write request received to store the data.