Micron Technology, Inc.
PARTIAL ZONE MEMORY UNIT HANDLING IN A ZONED NAMESPACE OF A MEMORY DEVICE

Abstract:

A request to perform a write operation to write data at a memory device configured with a zoned namespace having multiple zones is received. The data is associated with a zone of the multiple zones of the memory device. The data is stored at a non-zoned memory unit of a non-zoned memory region of the memory device. Whether the amount of data stored at the non-zoned memory unit and associated with the zone satisfies a threshold condition is determined. Responsive to determining that the data stored at the non-zoned memory unit and associated with the zone satisfies the threshold condition, the data is written from the non-zoned memory unit to a zone memory unit of the zone.