Systems and methods for writing data to a storage are disclosed. The disclosed systems and methods can receive, by a target device in communication with a host, a first write request from the host to write first data to the storage in communication with the target device. The disclosed systems and methods can determine, by a storage controller in the target device, a data type of the first data based on a first flag set corresponding to the first data. The disclosed systems and methods can store the first data to a location in the storage based at least on the data type of the first data.