US Patent Issued to Dell Products on Jan. 13 for "Adaptive replacement of solid-state disks with variable wear rates" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,524,159, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Hopkinton, Mass.).

"Adaptive replacement of solid-state disks with variable wear rates" was invented by Malak Alshawabkeh (Franklin, Mass.) and Kuolin Hua (Natick, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An individual adaptive replacement threshold is calculated for each drive of a drive array based on forecasted wear rate, maximum fulfillment time, and wear-life limit. The maximum fulfillment time and wear-life limit are input based on external conditions and design choice. The wear rate for the drive is forecasted using a multiple linear regression/machine learning model in whi...