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Remove-on-delete technologies for solid state drive optimization

  • US 9,696,907 B2
  • Filed: 12/07/2015
  • Issued: 07/04/2017
  • Est. Priority Date: 04/19/2007
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method performed on a solid state drive (“

  • SSD”

    ) coupled to a computing device via a SSD driver, the method comprising;

    receiving, by the SSD via the SSD driver from a file system of the computing device in response to a remove-on-delete command from the file system that indicates a deletion of at least a portion of a file in the file system, invalid data information that indicates that particular data stored on the SSD is considered invalid by the file system, where the particular data corresponds to the at least the portion of the file; and

    marking, by the SSD based on the received invalid data information, the particular data stored on the SSD as invalid, where the file system is separate from the SSD driver and the SSD.

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