Apparatus, systems, and methods for providing wear leveling in solid state devices

A storage system comprising:

• one or more storage devices comprising a plurality of memory blocks for maintaining data;
• and
• a memory controller configured to process a request to remove data in any one of memory blocks in the storage system, wherein the memory controller is further configured to:
• select one of the memory blocks in the storage system;
• determine a wear count associated with the selected memory block, wherein the wear count is indicative of a number of times the memory block has been erased;
• when the wear count associated with the selected memory block is less than a threshold wear count, cause data to be removed from the selected memory block, and
• when the wear count associated with the selected memory block is not less than the threshold wear count, select another one of the memory blocks until the memory controller selects a memory block whose wear count is less than the threshold wear count.

A non-transitory computer readable medium having executable instructions operable to cause a memory controller in a storage system to:

• receive a request to remove data in any one of a plurality of memory blocks in the storage system;
• select one of the memory blocks in the storage system;
• determine a wear count associated with the selected memory block, wherein the wear count is indicative of a number of times the memory block has been erased;
• when the wear count associated with the selected memory block is less than a threshold wear count, cause data to be removed from the selected memory block, and
• when the wear count associated with the selected memory block is not less than the threshold wear count, select another one of the memory blocks until the memory controller selects a memory block whose wear count is less than the threshold wear count.