Patent ID: 11960741
Assignee: WESTERN DIGITAL TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 17:
18. A data storage device, comprising:
memory means having stream architecture, the stream architecture dividing the memory means into a plurality of streams; and
a controller coupled to the memory means, the controller configured to:
program data of a write command to a stream of the plurality of streams, wherein the stream is selected based on one or more logical block addresses (LBAs) of the write command, wherein each stream has a plurality of stream granularity size (SGS) LBA ranges, and wherein a stream identifier (ID) is not included with the write command; and
maintain a list of open append points, wherein the list of open append points is maintained in a flash translation layer (FTL) table, and wherein each open append point of the list of open append points is associated with a SGS LBA range of a plurality of SGS LBA ranges.