Solid state drive, electronic device including solid state drive, and method of managing solid state drive

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-2022012141-A1
Application number	US-202117208312-A
Country	US
Kind code	A1
Filing date	Mar 22, 2021
Priority date	Jul 13, 2020
Publication date	Jan 13, 2022
Grant date	—

Abstract

An electronic device includes: a power supply to supply a first power and a second power; a first solid state drive (SSD) backplane and a second SSD backplane to receive the first power from the power supply, each of the first solid state drive (SSD) backplane and the second SSD backplane including two or more SSDs; and a baseboard to receive the second power from the power supply, to independently power on and power off the first SSD backplane and the second SSD backplane, and to access the SSDs of an SSD backplane that is in a power-on state from among the first SSD backplane and the second SSD backplane. In response to an increase in temperature of an SSD backplane that is in a power-off state, at least one SSD of the SSD backplane that is in the power-off state may be powered on.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1 . An electronic device, comprising:
a power supply configured to supply a first power and a second power; a first solid state drive (SSD) backplane and a second SSD backplane configured to receive the first power from the power supply, each of the first solid state drive (SSD) backplane and the second SSD backplane including two or more SSDs; and a baseboard configured to receive the second power from the power supply, to independently power on and power off the first SSD backplane and the second SSD backplane, and to access the SSDs of an SSD backplane that is in a power-on state from among the first SSD backplane and the second SSD backplane, wherein, in response to an increase in temperature of an SSD backplane that is in a power-off state from among the first SSD backplane and the second SSD backplane, at least one SSD of the SSD backplane that is in the power-off state is powered on.

2 . The electronic device as claimed in claim 1 , wherein:
each of the first SSD backplane and the second SSD backplane includes a bi-metal, and the increase in temperature is detected based on the bi-metal.

3 . The electronic device as claimed in claim 1 , wherein each of the first SSD backplane and the second SSD backplane includes:
a bi-metal disposed adjacent to the SSDs and configured to activate a signal in response to the increase in temperature; and a regulator configured to receive the first power from the power supply, and to power on or power off the SSDs under control of the baseboard, wherein the regulator changes a power-off state of an SSD adjacent to the bi-metal to a power-on state in response to the bi-metal activating the signal.

4 . The electronic device as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the at least one SSD that is powered on performs a retention recovery operation as a background operation.

5 . The electronic device as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the at least one SSD that is powered on performs a retention recovery operation in response to no communication initialization with the baseboard.

6 . The electronic device as claimed in claim 5 , wherein:
the baseboard transfers a retention recovery request from the at least one SSD that is powered on, and the at least one SSD that is powered on performs the retention recovery operation in response to the retention recovery request.

7 . The electronic device as claimed in claim 1 , further comprising coolers, wherein, in response to the increase in temperature, the baseboard increases cooling by the coolers.

8 . The electronic device as claimed in claim 7 , wherein a temperature for powering on the at least one SSD and a temperature for increasing the cooling are different.

9 . The electronic device as claimed in claim 1 , wherein:
each of the first SSD backplane and the second SSD backplane includes a temperature sensor configured to transfer temperature information to the baseboard, and the increase in temperature is detected based on the temperature information.

10 . The electronic device as claimed in claim 1 , wherein each of the first SSD backplane and the second SSD backplane includes:
a temperature sensor disposed adjacent to the SSDs and configured to transfer temperature information of the increase in temperature to the baseboard; and a regulator configured to receive the first power from the power supply, and to power on or power off the SSDs under control of the baseboard, wherein the baseboard controls the regulator to power on an SSD adjacent to the temperature sensor when the temperature information indicates that the temperature is greater than a critical value.

11 . The electronic device as claimed in claim 10 , wherein the baseboard adjusts the critical value based on a number of program/erase cycles of a specific SSD of the SSD backplane that is in the power-off state.

12 . The electronic device as claimed in claim 11 , wherein the baseboard decreases the critical value as the number of program/erase cycles of the specific SSD increases.

13 . The electronic device as claimed in claim 11 , wherein the baseboard collects the number of program/erase cycles of the specific SSD when powering off the SSD backplane that contains the specific SSD.

14 . The electronic device as claimed in claim 11 , wherein the baseboard includes a baseboard management controller configured to collect the temperature information and the number of program/erase cycles of the specific SSD through a management interface.

15 . The electronic device as claimed in claim 10 , wherein, when a time during which the temperature is greater than a cautious temperature value is greater than a threshold time, the baseboard allows the regulator to power on the SSD adjacent to the temperature sensor, the cautious temperature value being less than the critical value.

16 . The electronic device as claimed in claim 15 , wherein the baseboard is configured to:
increase a count when the temperature is greater than the cautious temperature value, and decrease the count when the temperature is less than the cautious temperature value; and power on the SSD adjacent to the temperature sensor when the count is greater than the threshold time.

17 . The electronic device as claimed in claim 16 , wherein the baseboard resets the count when the SSD adjacent to the temperature sensor is powered on.

18 . A method of managing a solid state drive (SSD), the method comprising:
powering off the SSD; powering on the SSD in response to an increase in an ambient temperature of the SSD; and performing a retention recovery operation at the SSD.

19 . The method as claimed in claim 18 , further comprising increasing cooling in response to the increase in the ambient temperature of the SSD.

20 . A solid state drive, comprising:
a nonvolatile memory device including a plurality of memory blocks each including a plurality of memory cells; and a controller including a temperature sensor and configured to perform a retention recovery operation on the plurality of memory blocks when a temperature sensed by the temperature sensor is greater than a critical value, wherein, in a power-on, the controller performs the retention recovery operation in response to no communication initialization with an external host device, or wherein, after the power-on, the controller performs the retention recovery operation in response to a request of the external host device.

Assignees

• Samsung Electronics Co Ltd

Inventors

• Kim Sung-Wook
• Kim So-Geum
• You Daehun
• Lim Jaehwan

Classifications

• Y02D10/00

  Energy efficient computing, e.g. low power processors, power management or thermal management · CPC title

• G06F11/3058

  Monitoring arrangements for monitoring environmental properties or parameters of the computing system or of the computing system component, e.g. monitoring of power, currents, temperature, humidity, position, vibrations (thermal management in cooling arrangements of a computing system G06F1/206) · CPC title

• G06F11/2015 Primary

  Redundant power supplies (power supply failure G06F1/30) · CPC title

• G06F1/206

  comprising thermal management · CPC title

• G06F1/26

  Power supply means, e.g. regulation thereof (for memories G11C) · CPC title