Patent ID: 11941286
Assignee: WESTERN DIGITAL TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 17:
18. A method of operating a system, the method comprising:
monitoring health of a power supply;
changing the mode of operation of a device according to the health of the power supply, wherein the device comprises a persistent memory and a non-persistent memory;
operating the device in a first vendor specific mode of operation by executing a first vendor specific command when the power supply is healthy;
operating the device in a second vendor specific mode of operation by executing a second vendor specific command when the power supply is not healthy;
in response to receiving a vendor specific command from a host-computing device, determining if the vendor specific command allows a ZRWA to be moved to a non-persistent memory; and
enabling the storage device with a flexible persistent backup option and allocating a portion of non-persistent memory.