Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.

Sungkyunkwan University

Yuhun Jun

Sooyoung Ji

Euiseong Seo

Jaeyong Bae

A storage device including: a memory storing data based on program modes; and a storage controller including a program mode table, the storage controller configured to: in response to a program request and first data being already stored in the memory, perform a deduplication operation in which the first data is logically and not physically programmed, in response to the program or an erase request, update a count value from a first to a second value, and in response to a determination that a first program mode corresponding to the first value and a second program mode corresponding to the second value are different, transmit a first command and address to the memory such that a first program operation in which the first data programmed with first bits corresponding to the first program mode is re-programmed with second bits corresponding to the second program mode is performed.

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Suwon-si, South Korea

Yuhun Jun