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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 23, 2024
Filed:
Apr. 27, 2022
Applicant:
SK Hynix Inc., Gyeonggi-do, KR;
Inventors:
Gi Gyun Yoo, Gyeonggi-do, KR;
Young Ho Ahn, Gyeonggi-do, KR;
Assignee:
SK hynix Inc., Gyeonggi-do, KR;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 12/00 (2006.01); G06F 3/06 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/0644 (2013.01); G06F 3/0604 (2013.01); G06F 3/064 (2013.01); G06F 3/0679 (2013.01);
Abstract
A storage device may include a storage comprising a plurality of dies each having a plurality of memory blocks, and configured to provide a default ZNS (Zoned NameSpace) size to a host device; and a controller configured to generate a ZNS by selecting one or more memory blocks corresponding to a required ZNS size from the plurality of dies to allocate the selected memory blocks to the ZNS in response to a ZNS generation request signal which includes the required ZNS size and is provided from the host device.