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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 06, 2018
Filed:
Jan. 02, 2017
Applicant:
Silicon Motion, Inc., Jhubei, Hsinchu, TW;
Inventor:
Chih-Ming Lin, New Taipei, TW;
Assignee:
Silicon Motion, Inc., Jhubei, TW;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/06 (2006.01); G06F 11/10 (2006.01); G11C 29/52 (2006.01); G11C 29/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/0647 (2013.01); G06F 3/0619 (2013.01); G06F 3/0679 (2013.01); G06F 11/1048 (2013.01); G06F 11/1068 (2013.01); G11C 29/52 (2013.01); G11C 29/74 (2013.01);
Abstract
A storage device includes a data storage medium and a control unit. The data storage medium includes a spare block pool including a plurality of spare blocks. Each spare block includes a plurality of data pages. The control unit is electrically coupled to the data storage medium. The control unit is configured to receive data from a host and to determine whether the data is sequential data according to a default policy. The data is written into at least two of the plurality of data pages in one of the plurality of spare blocks respectively. The control unit and a data storing method for the storage device are also provided.