Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.

Woonhyug Jee

Seungho Lim

Jin Seong Heo

Dongjin Lee

Jeong Woo Lee

Jong-Min Kim

Wonmoon Cheon

Sil Wan Chang

Donggi Lee

Seongsik Hwang

Haeri Lee

Jae-Hwa Lee

One embodiment of a method includes loading, by a memory controller, a boot image from a solid state drive to an operating memory of a computing system during an initialization operation of the computing system. The initialization operation initializes components of the computing system.

Method of managing a solid state drive, associated systems and implementations

The solid state drive device includes a memory device including a plurality of flash memories and a memory controller connected with a host and configured to control the memory device. The memory controller includes first and second cores, a host interface configured to interface with the host, and a flash memory controller configured to control the plurality of flash memories. The first core is configured to control transmission and reception of data to and from the host. The second core is configured to control transmission and reception of data to and from the memory device.

Solid state drive device

A solid state drive may include one or more memory cell arrays divided into a plurality of blocks. A first portion of the blocks may be designated for storing user data and a second portion of the blocks may be designated as reserved blocks for replacing defective blocks in the first portion. In one embodiment, the method includes reformatting, by a memory controller, the solid state drive to convert one or more blocks in the first portion into reserved blocks.

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Suwon-si, South Korea

Woonhyug Jee