US 12,248,685 B2
Data storage device and method for reducing read disturbs when reading redundantly-stored data
Eran Moshe, Kfar Saba (IL); and Gadi Vishne, Petach Tikva (IL)
Assigned to Sandisk Technologies, Inc., Milpitas, CA (US)
Filed by Western Digital Technologies, Inc., San Jose, CA (US)
Filed on Jul. 12, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/220,951.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/418,090, filed on Oct. 21, 2022.
Prior Publication US 2024/0134537 A1, Apr. 25, 2024
Prior Publication US 2024/0231639 A9, Jul. 11, 2024
Int. Cl. G06F 12/00 (2006.01); G06F 3/06 (2006.01)
CPC G06F 3/0619 (2013.01) [G06F 3/064 (2013.01); G06F 3/0679 (2013.01)] 18 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A data storage device comprising:
a memory configured to redundantly store a plurality of copies of data, wherein the plurality of copies of the data comprise a primary copy of the data and at least one secondary copy of the data; and
a processor configured to:
randomly select one of the plurality of copies of the data instead of selecting the primary copy of the data as a default; and
read, from the memory, the randomly-selected one of the plurality of copies of the data.