US 12,105,964 B2
Storage device and method of operating the same
Gyeong Min Park, Gyeonggi-do (KR); and Jong Tack Jung, Gyeonggi-do (KR)
Assigned to SK hynix Inc., Gyeonggi-do (KR)
Filed by SK hynix Inc., Gyeonggi-do (KR)
Filed on Feb. 23, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/173,068.
Claims priority of application No. 10-2022-0085624 (KR), filed on Jul. 12, 2022.
Prior Publication US 2024/0020023 A1, Jan. 18, 2024
Int. Cl. G06F 12/00 (2006.01); G06F 3/06 (2006.01)
CPC G06F 3/0619 (2013.01) [G06F 3/0631 (2013.01); G06F 3/0679 (2013.01)] 19 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A storage device comprising:
a plurality of first memory devices each including a plurality of zones on which sequential writing is performed;
a second memory device including a plurality of parity zones; and
a memory controller configured to:
allocate to a parity group, first zones included in the respective first memory devices and a first parity zone storing parity data for data stored in the first zones, the first parity zone being one of the parity zones in the second memory device,
release from the parity group, a first zone invalidated among the first zones by writing new data into a target zone different from the invalidated first zone among the zones included in the first memory device including the invalidated first zone, and
allocate the target zone to the parity group.