US Patent Issued to Dell Products on Oct. 27 for "SSD wear control through dynamic compression" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,775,391, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"SSD wear control through dynamic compression" was invented by Malak Alshawabkeh (Franklin, Mass.), Kuolin Hua (Natick, Mass.) and Ramesh Doddaiah (Westborough, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "One or more aspects of the present disclosure relate to extending solid-state drive (SSD) life in storage arrays through dynamic activity-based compression (ABC) thresholds. The system monitors SSD wear-out rates in primary and secondary storage arrays and independently adjusts ABC thresholds based on workload distributions and wear patterns. The primary array's ...