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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 12, 2021
Filed:
May. 16, 2019
Applicant:
Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Suwon-si, KR;
Inventor:
Nam-wook Kang, Hwaseong-si, KR;
Assignee:
Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Gyeonggi-do, KR;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 11/30 (2006.01); G06F 11/07 (2006.01); G06F 11/34 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 11/079 (2013.01); G06F 11/076 (2013.01); G06F 11/0727 (2013.01); G06F 11/0793 (2013.01); G06F 11/3034 (2013.01); G06F 11/3495 (2013.01);
Abstract
A storage device includes a non-volatile memory including a plurality of memory groups; and a memory controller configured to determine a monitoring group from among the plurality of memory groups, determine a monitoring block from among a plurality of blocks included in the monitoring group, and determine whether the monitoring group is a fail group by monitoring the monitoring block using dummy data prior to failure of the monitoring group.