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Application
Systems and methods for persistent deallocation
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US8762658B2
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224
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Created
3/24/21, 12:00 AM
Modified
3/24/21, 12:00 AM
Id
3,391
Content
The storage division includes a portion of a solid-state storage 110 in a solid-state storage device 102. Typically the storage division is an erase block. For flash memory, an erase operation on an erase block writes ones to every bit in the erase block by charging each cell. This is a lengthy process compared to a program operation which starts with a location being all ones, and as data is written, some bits are changed to zero by discharging the cells written with a zero. However, where the solid-state storage 110 is not flash memory or has flash memory where an erase cycle takes a similar amount of time as other operations, such as a read or a program, the storage division may not be required to be erased.
Notes
Added by DJM 3 2021