Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Fractional redundant array of silicon independent elements
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Application No.: US13675874Application Date: 2012-11-13
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Publication No.: US09727414B2Publication Date: 2017-08-08
- Inventor: Earl T. Cohen
- Applicant: Seagate Technology LLC
- Applicant Address: US CA Cupertino
- Assignee: Seagate Technology LLC
- Current Assignee: Seagate Technology LLC
- Current Assignee Address: US CA Cupertino
- Agency: Cesari & Reed, LLP
- Agent Kirk A. Cesari
- Main IPC: G06F11/10
- IPC: G06F11/10

Abstract:
Higher-level redundancy information computation enables a Solid-State Disk (SSD) controller to provide higher-level redundancy capabilities to maintain reliable operation in a context of failures of non-volatile (e.g. flash) memory elements during operation of an SSD implemented in part by the controller. For example, a first computation is an XOR, and a second computation is a weighted-sum. Various amounts of storage are dedicated to storing the higher-level redundancy information, such as amounts equivalent to an integer multiple of flash die (e.g. one, two, or three entire flash die), and such as amounts equivalent to a fraction of a single flash die (e.g. one-half or one-fourth of a single flash die).
Public/Granted literature
- US20130073895A1 FRACTIONAL REDUNDANT ARRAY OF SILICON INDEPENDENT ELEMENTS Public/Granted day:2013-03-21
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