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20100082890 | Method of managing a solid state drive, associated systems and implementations - A solid state drive may include one or more memory cell arrays divided into a plurality of blocks. A first portion of the blocks may be designated for storing user data and a second portion of the blocks may be designated as reserved blocks for replacing defective blocks in the first portion. In one embodiment, the method includes reformatting, by a memory controller, the solid state drive to convert one or more blocks in the first portion into reserved blocks. | 04-01-2010 |
20100138592 | Memory device, memory system and mapping information recovering method - Disclosed is a memory device which comprises a data storing part having plural physical storage spaces; and a control part for storing data in the data storing part, wherein each of the physical storage spaces comprises a main area for storing user data at a write operation and a spare area for storing additional data other than the user data, the additional data including a logical address corresponding to a physical storage space and a link value indicating a physical storage space to be accessed next. | 06-03-2010 |
20110238900 | Method of managing a solid state drive, associated systems and implementations - In one embodiment, the method includes storing, by a status checking module, status information for a solid state drive, and determining a status state of the solid state drive based on the status information. The status state is one of a good state, an intermediate state and a bad state, and the intermediate state is a state between the good state and the bad state. | 09-29-2011 |
20110238971 | Method of managing a solid state drive, associated systems and implementations - One embodiment of a method includes loading, by a memory controller, a boot image from a solid state drive to an operating memory of a computing system during an initialization operation of the computing system. The initialization operation initializes components of the computing system. | 09-29-2011 |
20110299335 | Memory system and method of accessing a semiconductor memory device - A memory system is provided with a processor, a main memory, and a flash memory. Performance of the memory system is improved through achievement of speed-up and high data reliability. The memory system includes a nonvolatile memory device and a controller configured to drive a control program to control the nonvolatile memory device. The control program executes a second access operation for the nonvolatile memory device even before a first access operation to the nonvolatile memory device is completed. | 12-08-2011 |
20110299338 | Memory system and method of accessing a semiconductor memory device - A memory system is provided with a processor, a main memory, and a flash memory. Performance of the memory system is improved through achievement of speed-up and high data reliability. The memory system includes a nonvolatile memory device and a controller configured to drive a control program to control the nonvolatile memory device. The control program executes a second access operation for the nonvolatile memory device even before a first access operation to the nonvolatile memory device is completed. | 12-08-2011 |
20110302352 | Memory system and method of accessing a semiconductor memory device - A memory system is provided with a processor, a main memory, and a flash memory. Performance of the memory system is improved through achievement of speed-up and high data reliability. The memory system includes a nonvolatile memory device and a controller configured to drive a control program to control the nonvolatile memory device. The control program executes a second access operation for the nonvolatile memory device even before a first access operation to the nonvolatile memory device is completed. | 12-08-2011 |
20110302468 | Memory system and method of accessing a semiconductor memory device - A memory system is provided with a processor, a main memory, and a flash memory. Performance of the memory system is improved through achievement of speed-up and high data reliability. The memory system includes a nonvolatile memory device and a controller configured to drive a control program to control the nonvolatile memory device. The control program executes a second access operation for the nonvolatile memory device even before a first access operation to the nonvolatile memory device is completed. | 12-08-2011 |
20110302476 | Memory system and method of accessing a semiconductor memory device - A memory system is provided with a processor, a main memory, and a flash memory. Performance of the memory system is improved through achievement of speed-up and high data reliability. The memory system includes a nonvolatile memory device and a controller configured to drive a control program to control the nonvolatile memory device. The control program executes a second access operation for the nonvolatile memory device even before a first access operation to the nonvolatile memory device is completed. | 12-08-2011 |
20110307646 | Memory system and method of accessing a semiconductor memory device - A memory system is provided with a processor, a main memory, and a flash memory. Performance of the memory system is improved through achievement of speed-up and high data reliability. The memory system includes a nonvolatile memory device and a controller configured to drive a control program to control the nonvolatile memory device. The control program executes a second access operation for the nonvolatile memory device even before a first access operation to the nonvolatile memory device is completed. | 12-15-2011 |
20120102277 | DATA STORAGE DEVICE AND WRITE METHOD THEREOF - A write method of a data storage device including a storage media includes compressing data to be stored in the storage media; determining compressed data start positions of a physical unit of the storage media in which the compressed data is to be stored; and storing the compressed data from the determined compressed data start positions of the physical unit, respectively. | 04-26-2012 |
20120239862 | MEMORY CONTROLLER CONTROLLING A NONVOLATILE MEMORY - Described is a memory controller interfacing with a host and a nonvolatile memory. The memory controller may include a buffer unit configured to store an input address table and a first hot address table; and a processing unit configured to judge whether an address from the host coincides with one of addresses stored in the input address table and to store the address from the host in the first hot address table according to the judgment. | 09-20-2012 |
20120239889 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR WRITING DATA IN MEMORY SYSTEM - A method of writing data in a memory system comprises determining a characteristic of write data and generating characteristic information according to the determined characteristic, generating a write command corresponding to the write data, and sending the write command, the characteristic information, and the write data to the memory system. | 09-20-2012 |
20120260146 | DATA STORAGE DEVICE RELATED METHOD OF OPERATION - A method is provided for operating a data storage device comprising a storage medium and a controller configured to control operations of the storage medium. The method comprises determining whether a read-requested data strip is an error data strip, reading a plurality of data strips in a stripe comprising the read-requested data strip when the read-requested data strip is the error data strip, outputting a data strip recovered using the other data strip except the error data strip among the plurality of data strips, and writing the recovered data strip and the other data strips into the storage medium. | 10-11-2012 |
20150026449 | METHOD OF MANAGING A SOLID STATE DRIVE, ASSOCIATED SYSTEMS AND IMPLEMENTATIONS - One embodiment of a method includes loading, by a memory controller, a boot image from a solid state drive to an operating memory of a computing system during an initialization operation of the computing system. The initialization operation initializes components of the computing system. | 01-22-2015 |