US Patent 10942881 Parallel operations in aggregated and virtualized solid state drives

A solid state drive having a drive aggregator and a plurality of component solid state drives. The drive aggregator is configured to map logical addresses identified in one or more first commands into multiple logical address groups defined respectively in multiple component solid state drives. According to the one or more first commands and the logical address mapping, the drive aggregator generates multiple second commands and transmits the multiple second commands in parallel to the multiple component solid state drives to perform an operation identified by the one or more first commands.