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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Oct. 08, 2019

Filed:

Jul. 06, 2018
Applicant:

Silicon Motion, Inc., Jhubei, Hsinchu County, TW;

Inventors:

Ching-Ke Chen, Jhubei, TW;

Yu-Chi Lai, Jhubei, TW;

Assignee:

Silicon Motion, Inc., Jhubei, TW;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G11C 11/34 (2006.01); G06F 3/06 (2006.01); G11C 11/56 (2006.01); G11C 16/26 (2006.01); G11C 16/34 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/0619 (2013.01); G06F 3/065 (2013.01); G06F 3/068 (2013.01); G06F 3/0656 (2013.01); G11C 11/56 (2013.01); G11C 11/5642 (2013.01); G11C 16/26 (2013.01); G11C 16/349 (2013.01); G11C 2207/2236 (2013.01); G11C 2211/5641 (2013.01);
Abstract

A storage device and a data storing method thereof are provided. The storage device includes a data storage medium and the control unit. The data storage medium includes a data storage area with a plurality of first type of data blocks. When a data reading operation is executed on a current data block of the data storage medium, the control unit determines whether a read count of the current data block is greater than a first threshold, determines whether the current data block is one of the first type of data blocks and generate a determination result according to the result, the control unit selects a plurality of first type of data blocks and switches the selected data blocks to a fast mode. Finally, the control unit moves data stored in the current data block to the selected data blocks under fast mode.


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