US 12,079,493 B2
Storage devices and methods of operating storage devices
Wonjong Song, Seoul (KR); Soonyoung Kim, Hwaseong-si (KR); and Taeyoung Kim, Seoul (KR)
Assigned to Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., (KR)
Filed by SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD., Suwon-si (KR)
Filed on Jun. 27, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/850,723.
Claims priority of application No. 10-2021-0158182 (KR), filed on Nov. 17, 2021; and application No. 10-2022-0005071 (KR), filed on Jan. 13, 2022.
Prior Publication US 2023/0152991 A1, May 18, 2023
Int. Cl. G06F 3/06 (2006.01)
CPC G06F 3/0626 (2013.01) [G06F 3/0656 (2013.01); G06F 3/0679 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A storage device comprising:
a nonvolatile memory device including a first memory region having a first write speed and a second memory region having a second write speed different from the first write speed; and
a storage controller including an internal buffer, the storage controller configured to store data from an external host in the first memory region by priority in a first mode,
wherein the storage controller is configured to control a data migration operation by:
performing read operation-transfer operation to read a second data that is pre-stored in the first memory region by a first unit and to transfer the first unit of data to a data input/output (I/O) circuit of the nonvolatile memory device a plurality of times; and
storing the second data transferred to the data I/O circuit in the second memory region.