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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 16, 2025
Filed:
Jun. 14, 2022
Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Suwon-si, KR;
Seongcheol Hong, Hwaseong-si, KR;
Hyungkyun Byun, Yongin-si, KR;
Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Gyeonggi-do, KR;
Abstract
A storage device according to the technical ideas of the inventive concepts include: a memory device including a plurality of memory blocks, the plurality of memory blocks including a plurality of pages; a data controller configured to receive, from a host, data to be written to the plurality of pages and a stream identifier corresponding the data, and determine whether to change the stream identifier based on an age of the data representing a frequency of update on the data on one of the plurality of memory blocks or one of the plurality of pages; and a garbage collection controller configured to classify the data based on the stream identifier, and control a garbage collection operation of the memory device based on a classification result.