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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 25, 2020
Filed:
Jun. 19, 2017
Applicant:
Silicon Motion, Inc., Jhubei, TW;
Inventor:
Szu-I Yeh, New Taipei, TW;
Assignee:
SILICON MOTION, INC., Jhubei, Hsinchu County, TW;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/06 (2006.01); G06F 12/02 (2006.01); G06F 11/10 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/064 (2013.01); G06F 3/0604 (2013.01); G06F 3/0619 (2013.01); G06F 3/0679 (2013.01); G06F 11/1004 (2013.01); G06F 11/1068 (2013.01); G06F 12/0246 (2013.01); G06F 2212/7201 (2013.01);
Abstract
A data storage device utilized for storing a plurality of data includes a memory and a controller. The memory includes a plurality of blocks, and each of the blocks includes a plurality of physical pages. The controller is coupled to the memory. When the data storage device is initiated, or when the data size read by a host is greater than a threshold value, the controller inspects the status of the data stored by the physical pages of the memory.