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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 25, 2023
Filed:
Apr. 02, 2021
SK Hynix Inc., Icheon-si, KR;
Min Kyung Choi, Icheon-si, KR;
SK hynix Inc., Icheon-si, KR;
Abstract
Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to a memory system and an operating method thereof. A memory system may include a memory device and a memory controller configured to, when receiving from the host a flush command instructing to flush data cached in a data cache to the memory device, flush first data cached in the data cache, the first data having a size smaller than a size of the reference write unit, to the memory device, write a first parity associated with the first data to a parity memory block, update a value of a parity location pointer indicating a location where the first parity is written, and set a parity write flag indicating whether the parity at the location pointed by the parity location pointer is valid.