18218874. SSD Content Preloading Via Broadcasting System (Western Digital Technologies, Inc.)
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SSD Content Preloading Via Broadcasting System
Organization Name
Western Digital Technologies, Inc.
Inventor(s)
Julian Vlaiko of Kfar Saba IL (US)
Judah Gamliel Hahn of Ofra (IL)
Shay Benisty of Beer Sheva (IL)
Alexander Bazarsky of Holon (IL)
SSD Content Preloading Via Broadcasting System
This abstract first appeared for US patent application 18218874 titled 'SSD Content Preloading Via Broadcasting System
Original Abstract Submitted
In a storage system having a plurality of solid state drives (SSDs), the performance of propagating data from a primary device to each secondary device may be improved using a dedicated high speed data channel in which data and commands associated with the data is sent from an upstream SSD to a downstream SSD. The data is also sent to the downstream SSD after a minimum amount of data has been programmed to the upstream SSD. The downstream SSD begins programming the data to its own memory device after receiving the data. The programming of data to each SSD of the storage system may be in parallel and at least partially concurrent with each other. Data, commands, and control messages may be sent an upstream SSD via a serial bus or a universal asynchronous receiver-transmitter channel, such that the downstream data paths and the upstream data paths are distinct.
