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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 05, 2021
Filed:
Dec. 03, 2018
Applicant:
SK Hynix Inc., Gyeonggi-do, KR;
Inventors:
Assignee:
SK hynix Inc., Gyeonggi-do, KR;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/06 (2006.01); G06F 12/02 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 12/0253 (2013.01); G06F 3/0604 (2013.01); G06F 3/0655 (2013.01); G06F 3/0679 (2013.01); G06F 2212/7205 (2013.01);
Abstract
Provided herein may be a storage device and a method of operating the same. The storage device may include a memory device including a plurality of memory blocks, and a memory controller configured to control the memory device and perform a garbage collection operation of securing free blocks in which data is not stored, based on a sum of a number of invalid data blocks and a number of free blocks, among the plurality of memory blocks, wherein the number of invalid data blocks is determined depending on a size of invalid data stored in the plurality of memory blocks.