US Patent 9842059 Wear leveling in storage devices

A system may include a plurality of memory cells and a processor. The plurality of memory cells may include a plurality of physical locations at which data is stored. The processor may be configured to determine whether to swap physical locations of data stored at logical block addresses in the first logical block address collection and physical locations of data stored at logical block addresses in the second logical block address collection. The processor may be further configured to, in response to determining to swap the physical locations of the data, swap the physical locations of the data stored at the logical block addresses in the first logical block address collection and the physical locations of the data stored at the logical block addresses in the second logical block address collection.