Patent ID: 8275933
Filing Date: 2012-09-25
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. An apparatus for managing physical regions in a solid-state storage device, the apparatus comprising: a definition module configured to define a physical storage region on solid-state storage media of a solid-state storage device, the physical storage region comprising a subset of total physical storage capacity on the solid-state storage media; a storage controller configured to perform memory operations within the physical storage region such that the memory operations are bounded to the physical storage region; and an implementation module configured to implement the physical storage region definition with respect to the storage controller for the solid-state storage media by redirecting memory operations for the solid-state storage device from a physical memory location outside the physical storage region to a physical memory location inside the physical storage region, wherein the definition module and the implementation module comprise one or more of logic hardware and executable code, the executable code stored on a computer readable storage medium.