US 11,726,706 B2
Storage device and method of operating the same
Tae Jin Oh, Icheon (KR); Jung Ki Noh, Icheon (KR); and Soon Yeal Yang, Icheon (KR)
Assigned to SK HYNIX INC., Icheon (KR)
Filed by SK hynix Inc., Icheon (KR)
Filed on Feb. 10, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/172,945.
Claims priority of application No. 10-2020-0102788 (KR), filed on Aug. 14, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2022/0050626 A1, Feb. 17, 2022
Int. Cl. G06F 12/00 (2006.01); G06F 3/06 (2006.01)
CPC G06F 3/0656 (2013.01) [G06F 3/0611 (2013.01); G06F 3/0653 (2013.01); G06F 3/0679 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
12. A storage device, comprising:
a memory device including a plurality of sequential areas and a random area other than the plurality of sequential areas, the plurality of sequential areas storing pieces of data corresponding to consecutive logical addresses input from a host; and
a memory controller configured to receive a write request from the host and control the memory device so that sub-data of write data corresponding to the write request is stored in the random area when dummy data has been stored in a sequential area among the plurality of sequential areas,
wherein the sequential area corresponds to a logical address included in the write request, and
wherein a size of the sub-data corresponds to a size of the dummy data.