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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 11, 2020
Filed:
Jun. 07, 2017
Applicant:
SK Hynix Inc., Gyeonggi-do, KR;
Inventors:
Hae Lyong Song, Gyeonggi-do, KR;
Woong Sik Shin, Seoul, KR;
Assignee:
SK hynix Inc., Gyeonggi-do, KR;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 12/02 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 12/0246 (2013.01);
Abstract
A method for operating a data storage device includes determining an ngarbage collection throughput by multiplying a rate of a number of used pages of an open memory block to an amount of write data to be processed to a sum of the number of used empty memory blocks and an immediately previous garbage collection throughput average value; and performing a garbage collection operation based on the ngarbage collection throughput.