Patent ID: 9250687
Filing Date: 2016-02-02
CPC Classification: G06F

Claim Text:
1. A data storage system comprising: a chassis having a plurality of component blade slots therein; a first Central Processing Unit (CPU) blade mounted in one of the plurality of component blade slots; a CPU blade running NAS for file-based access and or SAN storage protocol for block-based access; first and second solid-state non-volatile memory blades mounted in others of the plurality of component blade slots; CPU blade performing global wear leveling and or bad block marking, within the flash blades and across flash blades which leads to increased endurance of the flash array; DRAM to combine multiple small writes into a larger write operation, to prevent wear out of flash media due to excessive writes, which will lead to increased endurance of the flash array; a first crossbar switch located in the chassis and coupled to each of the mounted blades and at least one network port to allow data communication between each of the mounted blades and the at least one network port, such that the first and second solid-state non-volatile memory blades store read and write file data accessible through the at least one network port, under control of at least one storage protocols—NAS and or SAN, running on a processor on the first CPU blade.