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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 09, 2018
Filed:
Sep. 16, 2016
Toshiba Memory Corporation, Minato-ku, JP;
Tatsuya Zettsu, Yokohama, JP;
Yoshihisa Kojima, Kawasaki, JP;
TOSHIBA MEMORY CORPORATION, Minato-ku, JP;
Abstract
A nonvolatile memory having memory blocks, and a controller configured to select a first block and a second block among the memory blocks, determine a third percentage on the basis of a first percentage of valid data in the first block and a second percentage of valid data in the second block, determine a first ratio between a write amount of user data in accordance with a request from a host and a write amount of the valid data in the first block on the basis of the third percentage, and write the user data and the valid data in the first block into the nonvolatile memory on the basis of the first ratio.