Patents Represented by Attorney Hollingsworth Davis, LLP
  • Patent number: 8301830
    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.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 30, 2012
    Assignee: Seagate Technology LLC
    Inventors: Timothy R. Feldman, Jonathan W. Haines