Computer system with physically-addressable solid state disk (ssd) and a method of addressing the same

A storage system comprising:

• a Central Processing Unit (CPU):
• a physically-addressed solid state disk (SSD) that is addressable using physical addresses associated with user data, provided by a host, to be stored in or retrieved from the physically-addressed SSD in blocks;
• a non-volatile memory module coupled to the CPU and configured to store changes to flash tables, the flash tables including tables used to map logical to physical blocks for identifying the location of stored data in the physically addressed SSD, wherein the flash tables are moved to the paSSDs and the changes to the flash tables are maintained in the non-volatile memory module;
• a network interface controller coupled through a PCIe bus to the CPU;
• and
• wherein the changes to the flash tables are used to avoid reconstruction of the flash tables upon power interruption.

A computer system comprising:

• a Central Processing Unit (CPU):
• a physically-addressed solid state disk (SSD) that is addressable using physical addresses associated with user data, provided by a host, to be stored in or retrieved from the physically-addressed SSD in blocks;
• a non-volatile memory module coupled to the CPU and configured to store changes to flash tables, the flash tables including tables used to map logical to physical blocks for identifying the location of stored data in the physically addressed SSD, wherein the flash tables are moved to the physically-addressable SSDs and the changes to the flash tables are maintained in the non-volatile memory module;
• a network interface controller coupled through a PCIe bus to the CPU;
• and
• wherein the changes to the flash tables are used to avoid reconstruction of the flash tables upon power interruption.