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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 22, 2024
Filed:
May. 10, 2022
Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Suwon-si, KR;
Byoung-Geun Kim, Seoul, KR;
In-Hwan Doh, Seoul, KR;
Joo-Young Hwang, Suwon-si, KR;
Seung-Uk Shin, Seoul, KR;
Min-Seok Ko, Seoul, KR;
Jae-Yoon Choi, Seoul, KR;
SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD., Suwon-si, KR;
Abstract
A storage device includes a non-volatile memory including a plurality of memory blocks. The storage device performs an alignment operation in response to receipt of an align command. The alignment operation converts a received logical address of a logical segment into a physical address and allocates the physical address to a physical block address corresponding to a free block. The storage device is further configured to performs a garbage collection in units of the physical block address that indicates one memory block.