Patent ID: 9471232
Filing Date: 2016-10-18
CPC Classification: G06F,G11C

Claim Text:
1. A computer implemented method for sanitizing a storage device, comprising: receiving a sanitize command to sanitize at least a portion of a data storage medium within the storage device, wherein the data storage medium includes a plurality of sub-arrays each having a plurality of storage chips and the portion of the data storage medium includes storage chips from the plurality of sub-arrays; performing the sanitizing of the plurality of storage chips within the plurality of sub-arrays forming the portion of the data storage medium within the storage device, in response to the sanitize command, the sanitizing executing a sanitize method, wherein the sanitizing is performed in parallel on each of the plurality of storage chips within the plurality of sub-arrays defined in the portion of the data storage medium, the sanitize method defined by one or more sanitize parameters, wherein the sanitize parameters are identified based on the sanitize command; wherein when an unexpected power interruption occurs during performance of the sanitizing of the storage device,