Title:
Information processing system including storage device and storage device
Document Type and Number:
Japanese Patent JP6320318
Kind Code:
B2
Abstract:
A storage apparatus comprises a plurality of storage devices that form a storage volume, a data buffer, and a first control unit that controls the storage apparatus and the data buffer. Each storage device includes a nonvolatile memory that includes a plurality of erasable memory blocks, and a second control unit that controls the nonvolatile memory. The second control unit is configured to execute a garbage collection process. The first control unit is configured to save in the data buffer data received by the storage apparatus for storage in a particular storage device when the data are received during a time period in which the particular storage devices is executing a garbage collection process, and write the data that are saved in the data buffer into the particular one of the plurality of storage devices after the garbage collection process is completed.
Inventors:
Shintaro Wada
Application Number:
JP2015028631A
Publication Date:
May 09, 2018
Filing Date:
February 17, 2015
Export Citation:
Assignee:
Toshiba Memory Corporation
International Classes:
G06F3/06; G06F3/08; G06F12/00
Domestic Patent References:
| JP2013137665A | ||||
| JP2009545819A | ||||
| JP2012033002A | ||||
| JP2011154547A |
Foreign References:
| WO2015008356A1 | ||||
| US20140281121 |
Attorney, Agent or Firm:
Suzue International Patent Office