Pure Storage, Inc.
Solid state drives with multiple types of addressable memory

Abstract:

Solid state drives with multiple types of addressable memory, where the solid state drives include: a first memory component comprising a plurality of nonvolatile registers; a second memory component comprising flash memory; and one or more controllers configured to: receive a write operation, wherein the write operation indicates a first portion of data to be written to the flash memory and indicates a second portion of data to be written to one or more of the plurality of registers; and atomically write the first portion of the data to the flash memory and the second portion of the data to the one or more of the plurality of registers.