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Methods and systems for a storage system including an improved switch

  • US 20040088514A1
  • Filed: 10/31/2002
  • Published: 05/06/2004
  • Est. Priority Date: 10/31/2002
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A storage system comprising one or more memory sections, including one or more memory devices including storage locations for storing data, and a memory section controller for providing addresses to the memory devices, the addresses identifying storage locations for a memory device, wherein the memory devices use the provided addresses to perform a function selected from the set of reading and writing data to/from the memory devices;

  • one or more switches for receiving a data request including a data block identifier and switching the data request based on the data block identifier to one or more of the memory sections, the data block identifier identifying a set of storage locations;

    wherein the memory sections to which the data request was switched forward the received data block identifier to its memory section controller which maps the data block identifier to a set of addresses for the storage locations identified by the data block identifier, and provides the set of addresses to one or more of the memory section'"'"'s memory devices.

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