发明名称 |
Hybrid drive garbage collecting a non-volatile semiconductor memory by migrating valid data to a disk |
摘要 |
A hybrid drive is disclosed comprising a non-volatile semiconductor memory (NVSM) comprising a plurality of blocks, and a head actuated over a disk comprising a plurality of tracks, each track comprising a plurality of data sectors. A garbage collection operation is executed on the NVSM by reading valid data from a first block of the NVSM, writing the valid data to the disk, and erasing the first block.
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申请公布号 |
US8341339(B1) |
申请公布日期 |
2012.12.25 |
申请号 |
US20100814662 |
申请日期 |
2010.06.14 |
申请人 |
BOYLE WILLIAM B.;MEYER ALAN T.;SYU MEI-MAN L.;WESTERN DIGITAL TECHNOLOGIES, INC. |
发明人 |
BOYLE WILLIAM B.;MEYER ALAN T.;SYU MEI-MAN L. |
分类号 |
G06F12/00 |
主分类号 |
G06F12/00 |
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