Wear leveling technique for storage devices

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2009-05-07

2011-11-01

Tran, Michael (Department: 2827)

Electrical computers and digital processing systems: memory

Storage accessing and control

Specific memory composition

C365S185030

Reexamination Certificate

active

08051241

ABSTRACT:
A method for managing wear levels in a storage device having a plurality of data blocks, the method comprising moving data to data blocks having higher erasure counts based on a constraint on static wear levelness that tightens over at least a portion of the lives of the plurality of data blocks.

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