Patent ID: 11966610
Assignee: SK HYNIX INC.
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 0:
1. A storage device comprising:
a storage comprising a plurality of dies each having a plurality of memory blocks, and configured to provide a default ZNS (Zoned NameSpace) size to a host device; and
a controller configured to generate a ZNS by selecting one or more memory blocks corresponding to a required ZNS size from the plurality of dies to allocate the selected memory blocks to the ZNS in response to a ZNS generation request signal which includes the required ZNS size and is provided from the host device,
wherein the controller is further configured to allocate, when the host device transmits a write request including write data, a size of which is larger than a remaining capacity of the ZNS, another memory block to the ZNS based on of the size of the remaining capacity and the size of the write data corresponding to the write request to process the write request with the ZNS.