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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 04, 2021
Filed:
Aug. 07, 2019
SK Hynix Inc., Gyeonggi-do, KR;
SK hynix Inc., Gyeonggi-do, KR;
Abstract
Provided herein may be a storage device and a method of operating the storage device. The storage device may include a memory device including buffer blocks and main blocks, and a memory controller configured to control the memory device. The memory controller may include: a buffer block controller configured to control the memory device to store, in at least one of the main blocks, data stored in at least one of the buffer blocks; a mapping table manager configured to generate a P2P mapping table including mapping information between a buffer address that is a physical address of the at least one buffer block and a main address that is a physical address of the at least one main block; and a read operation controller configured to control, when a read request is received, the memory device to read the data based on the main address or the buffer address.