Loading patent…
AssigneeM-System Flash Disk Pioneers Ltd.
InventorsRami Koren, Eran Leibinger, Nimrod Wiesz, Eugen Zilberman, Ofer Tzur, Sagiv Aharonoff, Mordechai Teicher
Estimating the term…
A data storage device includes one or more non-volatile, blockwise erasable data storage media and a mechanism for sanitizing the media in response to a single external stimulus or in response to a predetermined physical or logical condition. Optionally, only part of the media is sanitized, at a granularity finer than the blocks of the medium. Setting a flag in an auxiliary nonvolatile memory enables an interrupted sanitize to be detected and restarted. Optionally, a “death certificate” verifying the sanitizing is issued. Preferably, the media are configured in a manner that allows atomic operations of the sanitizing to be effected in parallel.
A method of cleaning a medium wherein data are stored, the medium including a plurality of blocks and that is only block-wise erasable, each block being bounded by a respective first block boundary and a respective second block boundary, the method comprising the steps of:
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.