Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Data storage device and data maintenance method thereof
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Application No.: US15284154Application Date: 2016-10-03
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Publication No.: US10013210B2Publication Date: 2018-07-03
- Inventor: Chien-Cheng Lin , Jie-Hao Lee
- Applicant: Silicon Motion, Inc.
- Applicant Address: TW Jhubei, Hsinchu County
- Assignee: SILICON MOTION, INC.
- Current Assignee: SILICON MOTION, INC.
- Current Assignee Address: TW Jhubei, Hsinchu County
- Agency: McClure, Qualey & Rodack, LLP
- Priority: TW104134631A 20151022
- Main IPC: G06F3/06
- IPC: G06F3/06 ; G06F12/10

Abstract:
The present invention provides a data storage device including a flash memory and a controller. The controller equally distributes the TLC-data blocks into three regions. In a first stage, the controller determines a first TLC-data block corresponding to the logic address of a prewrite data sector, defines the region that contains the first TLC-data block as a first region, and determines whether the first TLC-data block has valid data. When the first TLC-data block does not have valid data, the controller selects a second TLC-data block and a third TLC-data block from the regions other than the first region for writing the prewrite data sector, into the first TLC-data block, the second TLC-data block and the third TLC-data block by a SLC storage mode.
Public/Granted literature
- US20170115933A1 DATA STORAGE DEVICE AND DATA MAINTENANCE METHOD THEREOF Public/Granted day:2017-04-27
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