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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 31, 2023
Filed:
Mar. 08, 2021
Applicant:
SK Hynix Inc., Gyeonggi-do, KR;
Inventors:
Sung Jin Park, Gyeonggi-do, KR;
Jee Yul Kim, Gyeonggi-do, KR;
Assignee:
SK hynix Inc., Gyeonggi-do, KR;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 12/02 (2006.01); G06F 3/06 (2006.01); G06F 12/0891 (2016.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 12/0246 (2013.01); G06F 3/064 (2013.01); G06F 3/0614 (2013.01); G06F 3/0631 (2013.01); G06F 3/0652 (2013.01); G06F 3/0679 (2013.01); G06F 12/0253 (2013.01); G06F 12/0891 (2013.01); G06F 2212/7201 (2013.01);
Abstract
The present disclosure relates to a storage device and an operating method thereof. The storage device includes a memory device including write-completed blocks storing data and free blocks each containing no data and a memory controller controlling the memory device to perform a garbage collection operation to store valid data stored in a victim block, among the write-completed blocks, in one of the free blocks based on the number of map segments including mapping information between logical addresses and physical addresses of the valid data, and erase counts of the free blocks.