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US 9,804,781 B2Granted
Storage media performance management
AssigneeSeagate Technology LLC
InventorAndrew Michael Kowles
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Abstract
A method or system for determining a required certification level of storage area for storing data of a write request based on a characteristic of the data, selecting a target storage area based on a media certification table and the required determined certification level of the media area and storing data at the target storage area.
Claims20
A method comprising:
- determining a required certification level of a section of a storage media for storing data of a write request based on a characteristic of the data with a storage controller on a storage device, wherein one or more sections of the storage media are partially certified;
- selecting a target storage location based on a media certification table and the determined required certification level;
- and
- storing data at the target storage location.
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A method comprising:
- determining, with a storage controller on a storage device, a write certification level of a target storage area based on latency of an operation to write data to the target storage area, wherein one or more sections of a storage media are partially certified.
A storage system comprising:
- a storage media, wherein one or more sections of the storage media are partially certified;
- and
- a storage controller configured to:
- receive a write request to write data,
- determining heat of the data, and
- determining a target storage location on the storage media for the data based on the heat of the data using a media certification table.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.