Elastifile Assigned Patent
Tiered storage in flash memory based on write activity
By Francis Pelletier | January 25, 2017 at 2:40 pmElastifile Ltd., Herzlia, Israel, has been assigned a patent (9,524,109) developed by Lotem, Eyal, Pardes Hanna, Israel, Weissbrem, Eliyahu, Rehovot, Israel, Hoch, Ezra N., Tel-Aviv, Israel, and Frank, Shahar, Ramat Hasharon, Israel, for a “tiered data storage in flash memory based on write activity.“
The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “A method includes receiving data objects for storage in at least one or more first storage devices characterized by a first write endurance, and one or more second storage devices characterized by a second write endurance that is lower than the first write endurance. Respective write-activity levels are estimated for the data objects. For each data object, a choice is made whether to store the data object in the first storage devices or in the second storage devices based on an estimated write-activity level of the data object. The data object is stored in the chosen storage devices.“
The patent application was filed on February 18, 2015 (14/624,674).
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