Patent ID: 11941263
Assignee: WESTERN DIGITAL TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G  Y | IPC G

Claim 19:
20. An apparatus, comprising:
means for maintaining a queue of pending operations for a first plurality of dies of the data storage device;
means for awarding, in a time interval, a higher priority to a first subset of the pending operations than to a different second subset of the pending operations, at least one operation of the first subset being in the queue behind at least one operation of the second subset; and
means for connecting a power supply to a second plurality of the storage dies, the second plurality being a subset of the first plurality and being dynamically changeable in time; and
wherein, in the time interval, the means for connecting is configured to include storage dies corresponding to the first subset into the second plurality of the storage dies in response to the awarding.