System and method for selective write to flash memory in HDD

Details System and method for selective write to flash memory in HDD System and method for selective write to flash memory in HDD

2008-01-08

2008-01-08

Lane, Jack (Department: 2185)

Electrical computers and digital processing systems: memory

Storage accessing and control

Specific memory composition

C711S113000, C711S138000

Reexamination Certificate

active

07318118

ABSTRACT:
For non-bursty data writes, data is written to flash memory of a hard disk drive for subsequent de-staging to disk, whereas for bursty writes data is written directly to disk.

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