METHOD OF PERFORMING GARBAGE COLLECTION, STORAGE DEVICE PERFORMING THE SAME AND COMPUTING SYSTEM INCLUDING THE SAME

A method of operating a storage device to perform a garbage collection operation on a nonvolatile memory device having a plurality of memory blocks, the storage device configured to operate based on a multi-stream scheme such that a plurality of data is written into the plurality of memory blocks ba...

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Main Authors HWANG, Joo-Young, DOH, In-Hwan, JUN, Byung-Hei
Format Patent
LanguageEnglish
Published 16.05.2019
Subjects
CALCULATING
COMPUTING
COUNTING
ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING
PHYSICS
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Summary:A method of operating a storage device to perform a garbage collection operation on a nonvolatile memory device having a plurality of memory blocks, the storage device configured to operate based on a multi-stream scheme such that a plurality of data is written into the plurality of memory blocks based on which of a plurality of streams is associated with the plurality of data. The method may include selecting at least two memory blocks among the plurality of memory blocks as victim memory blocks such that the victim memory blocks are configured to store data associated with a same stream of the plurality of streams; and performing the garbage collection operation on the victim memory blocks.
Bibliography:Application Number: US201816110088