Lightbits Labs, the pioneer and leader in NVMe over TCP (NVMe/TCP) software-defined storage, today announced it has been assigned a patent (11,03,6626) for “a method and system to determine an optimal over-provisioning ratio.”
The abstract of the patent (11,03,6626) published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: A system and a method of managing over-provisioning (OP) on non-volatile memory (NVM) computer storage media including at least one NVM storage device, by at least one processor, may include: receiving a value of one or more run-time performance parameters pertaining to data access requests to one or more physical block addresses (PBAs) of the storage media; receiving at least one of a target performance parameter value and a system-inherent parameter value; analyzing the received at least one run-time performance parameter value, to determine an optimal OP ratio of at least one NVM storage device in view of the received at least of a target performance parameter value and system-inherent parameter value; and limiting storage of data objects on the at least one NVM storage device according to the determined OP ratio.
The patent (11,03,6626) application was filed on June 24, 2019 (16/449,610).
Inventor: Abel Alkon Gordon
To read the patent abstracts and full detail go to: https://patents.justia.com/assignee/lightbits-labs-ltd
