STORAGE DEVICE SUPPORTING RANDOM WRITE AREA ACCESSIBLE FROM HOST AND METHOD OF OPERATING THE SAME

A storage device includes a nonvolatile memory device including a plurality of zones, each of the plurality of zones including a plurality of logical addresses, and a storage controller configured to control the nonvolatile memory, the storage controller including at least one buffer directly accessible by a host device, the buffer including at least one random write area and a write pointer, the write pointer configured to store a position indicating a starting logical address of the random write area, and the buffer configured to write data into the random write area based on the position of the write pointer in response to the buffer receiving the write data from the host device.