Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.

Jaesub Kim

Jaewon Song

Yangwoo Roh

Jeongbeom Seo

Sejeong Jang

Junyong Uhm

Junggyu Kim

Eunjoo Oh

Sungjin Kim

Junho Kim

Sil Wan Chang

Sangyoon Oh

Seongnam Kwon

Hyun-Sik Yun

Jong Youl Lee

Hongmoon Wang

Jea-Young Kwon

Rajendra Singh

ByungWoo Nam

Soohwan Kang

Donghee Lee

Soo-gon Kim

Yunseok Kang

Minkyeong Lee

Youkun Shin

A storage device includes a nonvolatile memory and a controller configured to manage data, stored in the nonvolatile memory, through a plurality of namespaces. The plurality of namespaces may include a first namespace, allocated to a first logical address space, and a second namespace allocated to a second logical address space, contiguous to the first logical address space. The controller may be configured to delete the first namespace in the first logical address space in response to a request of deleting the first name space, to copy the mapping information on the second namespace from the second logical address space to the first logical address space, and to load the mapping information on the second namespace into a cache.

Storage device supporting multi-namespace and method of operating the same

A device controller of a storage device including a non-volatile memory peeks a command from a submission queue, and determines whether the peeked command is executable based on a status of device resources. In response to determining that the command is executable, the device controller fetches the command, allocates the device resources to the fetched command, and executes the command.

Non-volatile memory-based storage device, device controller and method thereof

A method of operating a storage controller which communicates with a host device and a non-volatile memory device is provided. The method includes: receiving a first command from the host device indicating a read operation of first status information of a first zone random write area (ZRWA) in a first zone region, wherein the first command complies with a zoned namespace (ZNS) standard; obtaining the first status information from a zone status table in the storage controller based on the first command, wherein the first status information indicates at least a portion of a first physical region of the non-volatile memory device corresponding to the first ZRWA in which first data are stored; and providing the first status information to the host device.

Storage controller providing status information of zone region, method of operating the same, and method of operating electronic device having the same

Disclosed is an operation method of a storage device which includes setting a first threshold value for a first host and a second threshold value for a second host under control of a hypervisor, sequentially fetching host commands from the first and second hosts, storing the fetched host commands in an internal command queue, stopping fetching a host command from the first host when the number of first host commands fetched from the first host from among the host commands stored in the internal command queue reaches the first threshold value, and stopping fetching a host command from the second host when the number of second host commands fetched from the second host from among the host commands stored in the internal command queue reaches the second threshold value.

Storage device supporting multi-host and operation method thereof

A host system includes a host device configured to generate a first log, a storage device configured to generate at least one second log, and a shared memory configured to store the first log and to store composite logs corresponding to the first log and the at least one second log. The storage device reads the first log from the shared memory, adds a timestamp and log-type information to the first log and the at least one second log to generate the composite logs, and writes the composite logs to the shared memory.

Storage device, host system having the same, and operating method thereof

An electronic system includes: a host; and a storage device configured to exchange data with the host using an interface protocol. The host provides a fault insertion command, including a fault type, a target location, and a fault condition, to the storage device, based on the interface protocol. The storage device performs a fault detection operation, selected based on the fault type among an assert code execution operation, a memory polling operation, an interrupt polling operation, and a latency detection operation, on the target location in response to the fault insertion command, and stores a snapshot of the storage device when the fault condition is detected as a result of performing the fault detection operation. The host obtains the stored snapshot using the interface protocol, and debugs the storage device using the obtained snapshot.

Storage controller and electronic system

A method of operating a storage device with a memory includes partitioning an entire area of a first namespace into at least one area based on a reference size. The partitioning is performed in response to a namespace creating request from a host that includes size information corresponding to the entire area of the first namespace. The method further includes partitioning a logical address space of the memory into a plurality of segments, allocating a first segment of the plurality of segments to a first area of the at least one area, and storing mapping information of the first area and the first segment. A size of the logical address space is greater than a size of a physical storage space of the memory identified by the host.

Storage device with expandible logical address space and operating method thereof

A controller is included in a storage device communicating with a host device. The controller is configured to receive a firmware image download command and a firmware image corresponding to the firmware image download command from the host device, perform verification for determining whether the firmware image is damaged in response to the received firmware image download command, and when a firmware update request for the firmware image is received from the host device, determine whether to perform a firmware update based on the firmware image by using a verification result of the firmware image.

Operating method for performing firmware image chunk update and verification of whether damage as occurred on storage device

At least one example embodiment provides a method for transferring a request in a storage device. The method includes generating an asynchronous command completion that corresponds to an asynchronous event request command and has a wall clock time request, receiving a set features command having a timestamp, the set features command corresponding to the asynchronous command completion, and updating the wall clock time using the timestamp.

Method for transferring request in storage device and method for issuing command in host

Storage device with expandable logical address space and operating method thereof

An operation method of a storage device, which is connected to a host through an interface sharing a memory buffer of the host, includes receiving an access command from the host, anticipating data that is expected to be requested by the host with reference to the access command, reading out the anticipated data from a nonvolatile memory device and loading the read data to a first area of the memory buffer, and in a case of being requested to load the anticipated data into a second area of the memory buffer by the host, moving the anticipated data from the first area to the second area.

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Jaesub Kim