Patent ID: 8806299

Claim:
A storage drive comprising: a non-volatile semiconductor memory; an interface configured to receive a first plurality of data sectors transmitted from a host to the storage drive; a compression module configured to compress the first plurality of data sectors to generate a second plurality of data sectors, wherein lengths of the second plurality of data sectors vary, and wherein the second plurality of data sectors comprise a first data sector and a second data sector; a first sector module configured to generate a third plurality of data sectors by adding nuisance data to (i) the second plurality of data sectors, or (ii) an encrypted version of the second plurality of data sectors, wherein lengths of the third plurality of data sectors do not vary, and wherein the first sector module combines the first data sector and the second data sector of the second plurality of data sectors to generate one of the third plurality of data sectors; and a control module configured to store the third plurality of data sectors in the non-volatile semiconductor memory.