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Samsung patents storage drive that reports data health to your computer

Patent drawing from the official filing.

This patent describes a storage device that tracks how many errors occur when reading or writing data. It uses a table to convert these error counts into a simple quality score, which it then sends to the main computer so the system knows how reliable the data is.

Why it mattersThis could help computers automatically decide how to handle files if the storage drive starts failing, potentially preventing data loss before it happens.

In the filing’s own words

A storage device is disclosed. The storage device may include storage for data. A controller may manage writing the data to the storage and reading the data from the reading storage. A data quality metric table may map a first number of errors to a first data quality metric and map a second number of errors to a second data quality metric. A transmitter may return the data quality metric table to a host.

What exactly they claim (claim 1)

1. A storage device, comprising: storage media for a data; a controller to manage access to the data in the storage media; a data structure to associate a first property with a first quality metric and to associate a second property with a second quality metric; and a transmitter to return the data structure.

Facts

Company: Samsung (Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.)
Official title: Storage device with data quality metric and selectable data recovery scheme
Patent number: US12754799B2
Application number: 18945489
Filed: Nov 12, 2024
Granted: Oct 6, 2026
Inventors: 2
Claims: 20

Classified under

G06F 11/1044 Physics & computingG06F 11/076 Physics & computingG06F 11/1451 Physics & computingG06F 11/1469 Physics & computingG06F 11/1471 Physics & computing

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Summaries are simplified from the filing’s own abstract and first claim. A patent filing is not a product announcement.
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