Data storage device and data writing method thereof
A data storage device including a flash memory and a controller is provided. The flash memory has a plurality of TLC blocks, each of which includes a plurality of pages. The controller checks whether any of the TLC blocks was undergoing a write operation and unfinished at the time that the power-off event occurred when the data storage device resumes operation after a power-off event. When a first TLC block was undergoing the write operation and unfinished at the time that the power-off event occurred, the controller further checks whether data stored in a page which was the last one being written in the first TLC block can be successfully read, and continues to write the remaining data into the first TLC block when the data of the page which was the last one being written in the first TLC block can be successfully read.
1. A data storage device, comprising:
a flash memory, having a plurality of TLC blocks, wherein each of the TLC blocks comprises a plurality of pages; and
a controller, checking whether any of the TLC blocks was undergoing a write operation which was unfinished at the time that the power-off event occurred when the data storage device resumes operation after a power-off event, wherein when a first TLC block was undergoing a write operation which was unfinished at the time that the power-off event occurred, the controller further checks whether data stored in a page which was the last one being written in the first TLC block can be successfully read, and continues to write the remaining data into the first TLC block when the data of the page which was the last one being written in the first TLC block can be successfully read.
2. The data storage device as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the flash memory has a plurality of SLC blocks, and each of the SLC blocks comprises a plurality of pages, wherein the write operation is arranged to program a predetermined size of data stored in the SLC blocks into one of TLC blocks.
3. The data storage device as claimed in claim 1 , wherein when all of the remaining data of the write operation is written into the first TLC block, the controller checks whether a number of error bits of each of the pages in the first TLC block is higher than a first predetermined number.
4. The data storage device as claimed in claim 3 , wherein when any of the numbers of error bits of the pages in the first TLC block is higher than the first predetermined number, the controller selects a second TLC block from the other TLC blocks to write the data of the write operation which was arranged to be written into the first TLC block into the second TLC block.
5. The data storage device as claimed in claim 4 , wherein when no power-off event has occurred during the write operation performed on the second TLC block, the controller continues to perform other tasks and bypasses a step of checking the numbers of error bits of the pages in the second TLC block after the write operation performed on the second TLC block is finished.
6. The data storage device as claimed in claim 1 , wherein when the data of the page which was the last one being written in the first TLC block can be successfully read and the number of error bits of the page which was the last one being written in the first TLC block is higher than a second predetermined number, the controller further moves the data which was written in the first TLC block before the power-off event occurred to a temporary block of the flash memory.
7. The data storage device as claimed in claim 1 , wherein when the data of the page which was the last one being written in the first TLC block cannot be successfully read, the controller selects a third TLC block from the TLC blocks to write the data of the write operation which was arranged to be written into the first TLC block into the third TLC block.
8. The data storage device as claimed in claim 7 , wherein the controller selects the TLC block which is not the first TLC block and does not have valid data to serve as the third TLC block.
9. A data writing method, applied to a data storage device, wherein the data storage device comprises a flash memory having a plurality of TLC blocks, and the data writing method comprises:
when the data storage device resumes operation after a power-off event, checking whether any of the TLC blocks was undergoing a write operation and which was unfinished at the time that the power-off event occurred;
when a first TLC block was undergoing the write operation and which was unfinished at the time that the power-off event occurred, checking whether data stored in a page which was the last one being written in the first TLC block can be successfully read; and
when the data of the page which was the last one being written in the first TLC block can be successfully read, continuing to write the remaining data into the first TLC block.
10. The data writing method as claimed in claim 9 , wherein the flash memory has a plurality of SLC blocks, and each of the SLC blocks comprises a plurality of pages, wherein the write operation is arranged to program a predetermined size of data stored in the SLC blocks into one of TLC blocks.
11. The data writing method as claimed in claim 9 , further comprising when all of the remaining data of the write operation is written into the first TLC block, checking whether the number of error bits of each of the pages in the first TLC block is higher than a first predetermined number.
12. The data writing method as claimed in claim 11 , further comprising:
when any of the numbers of error bits of the pages in the first TLC block is higher than the first predetermined number, selecting a second TLC block from the other TLC blocks; and
writing the data of the write operation which was arranged to be written into the first TLC block into the second TLC block.
13. The data writing method as claimed in claim 12 , further comprising when no power-off event has occurred during the write operation performed on the second TLC block, continuing to perform other tasks and bypassing the step of checking the numbers of error bits of the pages in the second TLC block after the write operation performed on the second TLC block is finished.
14. The data writing method as claimed in claim 9 , wherein when the data of the page which was the last one being written in the first TLC block can be successfully read, the data writing method further comprises:
determining whether the number of error bits of the page which was the last one being written in the first TLC block is higher than a second predetermined number; and
when the number of error bits of the page which was the last one being written in the first TLC block is higher than a second predetermined number, writing the data which was written in the first TLC block before the power-off event occurred into a temporary block of the flash memory.
15. The data writing method as claimed in claim 9 , further comprising:
when the data of the page which was the last one being written in the first TLC block cannot be successfully read, selecting a third TLC block from the TLC blocks; and
writing the data of the write operation which was arranged to be written into the first TLC block into the third TLC block.
16. The data writing method as claimed in claim 15 , wherein the step of selecting the third TLC block from the TLC blocks further comprises selecting the TLC block which is not the first TLC block and does not have valid data to serve as the third TLC block.