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US 8,510,497 B2Granted
Flash storage device with flexible data format
AssigneeSTEC, Inc.
InventorsMark Moshayedi, Seyed Jalal Sadr
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Abstract
A flash storage device includes a flash storage for storing data and a controller for receiving a command containing data and selecting a sector size for the data. The controller allocates the data among data sectors having the sector size and writes the data sectors to the flash storage. In some embodiments, the controller generates system data and stores the system data in the data sectors or a system sector, or both.
Claims44
A flash storage device, comprising:
- a flash storage;
- and
- a controller configured to:
- receive a command comprising data,
- select a sector size, allocate the data among a plurality of sectors comprising a plurality of data sectors each having the sector size, and
- write the plurality of data sectors to the flash storage.
3 more elements
A flash storage device, comprising:
- a flash storage;
- and
- a controller configured to:
- receive a command comprising data,
- select a sector size,
- allocate the data among a plurality of sectors comprising at least one data sector and a system sector, each data sector of the at least one data sector having the sector size, and
- write the at least one data sector to the flash storage.
4 more elements
A method of transferring data in the flash storage device comprising a flash storage, the method comprising:
- receiving a command comprising data;
- identifying a storage block in the flash storage based on the command;
- selecting a sector size;
- allocating the data among a plurality of sectors comprising a plurality of data sectors each having the sector size;
- and
- writing the data sectors to the storage block.
3 more elements
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.