Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.

Jea-Young Kwon

Sil Wan Chang

Song Ho Yoon

Jae-Kun Lee

Hwan Mook Kim

Sungjin Kim

Young-Jin Park

Jaesub Kim

Hongmoon Wang

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 storage system may include a memory device including a first region including a single-level cell and a second region different from the first region, and a storage controller configured to read data from the first region at a first gear level of a plurality of gear levels, determine an error level of the read data and a state of the memory device, and change the first gear level to a second gear level of the plurality of gear levels based on the determined error level of the data and the determined state of the memory device.

Storage controller for selecting a gear level of a storage device and storage system including the same

A storage device is provided. The storage device includes a memory device including a memory cell array configured to store metadata and main data and a storage controller configured to access the memory device and control the memory device, wherein the storage controller is configured to read data from the memory device at a speed adaptively varying to a first read speed or a second read speed according to a state of the memory device, the second read speed being faster than the first read speed.

Storage device and operating method thereof

A storage device may include, at least one memory device including at least a first single-level cell (SLC) region, a second SLC region, and at least one multi-level cell (MLC) region, the first SLC region having a higher data read speed than the second SLC region, and the second SLC region having a higher data read speed than the at least one MLC region, and a storage controller configured to control the migration of data among the first SLC region, the second SLC region, and the at least one MLC region.

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Hwaseong-si, South Korea

Jea-Young Kwon