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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 04, 2024
Filed:
Apr. 26, 2023
Applicant:
SK Hynix Inc., Gyeonggi-do, KR;
Inventor:
Gun Wook Lee, Seoul, KR;
Assignee:
SK hynix Inc., Gyeonggi-do, KR;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 12/02 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 12/0253 (2013.01); G06F 2212/1044 (2013.01);
Abstract
A data storage device may include a storage including a plurality of memory blocks composed of system memory blocks for storing system data and user memory blocks for storing user data; and a controller configured to: control exchange of the system and user data with the storage in response to a request of a host device; and determine whether a start condition for performing a garbage collection operation on the storage is satisfied, based on a number of bad memory blocks in the plurality of memory blocks.