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- Patent Title: Data storage device and data maintenance method thereof
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Application No.: US15618224Application Date: 2017-06-09
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Publication No.: US10168913B2Publication Date: 2019-01-01
- 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: TW105119404A 20160621
- Main IPC: G06F3/06
- IPC: G06F3/06 ; G06F12/02

Abstract:
The present invention provides a data storage device including a flash memory and a controller. The flash memory has a plurality of SLC-spare blocks, a plurality of TLC-data blocks and a plurality of TLC-spare blocks. The controller writes a first data sector into a first TLC-spare block, and determines whether a first TLC-data block corresponding to a first logical address has valid data. When the first TLC-data block has valid data, the controller performs a reverse-lookup to obtain a second logical address corresponding to the first TLC-data block, releases the first TLC-data block, a second TLC-data block and a third TLC-data block which are mapped to the second logical address, and maps the first TLC-spare block to the first logical address.
Public/Granted literature
- US20170364265A1 DATA STORAGE DEVICE AND DATA MAINTENANCE METHOD THEREOF Public/Granted day:2017-12-21
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