| CPC G06F 12/0238 (2013.01) [G06F 2212/202 (2013.01)] | 19 Claims |

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1. A method of operating a storage device, the storage device including a non-volatile memory device, and the method comprising:
providing a host with information indicating that it is possible to designate a data criticality and a priority for each of a plurality of namespaces of the non-volatile memory device, wherein the data criticality corresponds to a reliability level of memory cells for data storage and the priority corresponds to a speed at which data is processed;
receiving, from the host, a first request for designating a data criticality and a priority for a first namespace of the namespaces; and
generating a namespace mapping table in response to the first request, wherein the generating the namespace mapping table includes mapping each namespace of the namespaces of the non-volatile memory device to a data criticality, a priority, and a storage controller.
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