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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 02, 2025
Filed:
Feb. 14, 2023
Applicant:
SK Hynix Inc., Icheon, KR;
Inventor:
Cheon Ok Jeong, Icheon, KR;
Assignee:
SK hynix Inc., Icheon, KR;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/06 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/0652 (2013.01); G06F 3/0604 (2013.01); G06F 3/0673 (2013.01);
Abstract
A storage device may execute an erase operation on a first metadata memory block. The storage device may copy, to the first metadata memory block, all or some of metadata units stored in a second metadata memory block that is a metadata memory block on which the erase operation is to be executed after the erase operation is executed on the first metadata memory block.