SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR FINE GRANULAR RETENTION CONTROL IN STORAGE DEVICES

A storage device is disclosed. The storage device may include a host interface to receive a write request from a host, the write request may include a data and a logical address of the data. The storage device may further include a first storage for the data. The storage device may further include a retention period determiner to determine a retention period for the data. The storage device may further include a translation layer to select a physical address in the first storage to store the data based at least in part on the retention period. The storage device may further include a second storage for a logical-to-physical mapping table to map the logical address to the physical address and the retention period. Finally, the storage device may include a controller to program the data into the physical address in the first storage.