Patent ID: 9665451
Date: 2017-05-30
CPC Classifications: G06F

Claim:
1. A solid-state drive, comprising: an interface for coupling the solid-state drive to a host system; one or more memory group modules, each memory group module of the one or more memory group modules including a respective memory controller and non-volatile memory, wherein each respective memory controller is configured to control a plurality of operations within a corresponding memory group module; a storage device controller coupled to the one or more memory group modules, the storage device controller configured to control a plurality of data transfer operations; and one or more energy storage devices, each of the one or more energy storage devices for supplying power to one or more corresponding memory group modules during a power fail operation; wherein the solid-state drive is configured to couple each energy storage device of the one or more energy storage devices to one or more corresponding memory group modules without coupling the energy storage device to the storage device controller during the power fail operation.