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

Claim 18:
19. 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 a 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;
determine that the stream is associated with a closed SGS LBA range;
select and/or open an open append point for another SGS LBA range; and

program the data of the write command to the open append point.