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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 06, 2024
Filed:
Aug. 10, 2022
Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Suwon-si, KR;
Abstract
A storage device includes a memory device storing a lower-level bitmap indicating whether or not logical sectors are invalid in a host, and an upper-level bitmap indicating whether or not logical groups each including consecutive logical sectors are invalid, and a controller that controls the memory device and including a log buffer. The controller may receive a trim command for one or more target logical sectors from the host and determine using the upper-level bitmap whether or not one or more target logical groups including the target logical sectors are invalid, store a trim log including address information of target logical sectors included in a target logical group that is not invalid in the log buffer and refrain from storing a trim log for target logical sectors included in a target logical group that is invalid, and invalidate the target logical sectors.