US Patent 11487630 Storage device and data processing method thereof

A storage device includes a memory device including a metadata area and a journal data area. A memory controller is configured to control the memory device to write a metadata block to the metadata area and to write a journal data block to the journal data area. The metadata block includes metadata, and the journal data block includes both journal data and metadata storage information. The journal data includes log information pertaining to the metadata, and the metadata storage information includes information pertaining to storage of the metadata block.