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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 04, 2024
Filed:
Jun. 29, 2022
Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Suwon-si, KR;
Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Gyeonggi-do, KR;
Abstract
A storage device includes a memory device including a first memory region having a lowest bit density, a second memory region having a medium bit density, and a third memory region having a highest bit density, and a controller configured to control the memory device. The controller is configured to determine data from a host as being any one of hot data, warm data and cold data, is configured to store the hot data in the first memory region, is configured to store the warm data in the second memory region, is configured to store the cold data in the third memory region, is configured to select a source block of first memory blocks included in the first memory region, is configured to select destination blocks in each of the second and third memory regions, and is configured to migrate each piece of unit data stored in the source block to one of the destination blocks according to a degree of hotness of each piece of the unit data.