CPC G06F 3/0644 (2013.01) [G06F 3/0604 (2013.01); G06F 3/0616 (2013.01); G06F 3/0652 (2013.01); G06F 3/0673 (2013.01)] | 17 Claims |
1. A method comprising:
determining, for one or more data elements, a number of deduplicated references to each data element;
identifying wear leveling information associated with one or more storage device locations, wherein the one or more data elements are to be placed in an area of a storage device that contains other data elements with similar expected longevities based on the wear leveling information;
storing, for at least one of the data elements, the data element with other data elements having a similar number of deduplicated references; and
adjusting a garbage collection schedule for the storage device, wherein garbage collection operations are performed more frequently on areas of the storage device that contain data elements with a relatively low number of deduplicated references.
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