Enhanced capacity recording
AssigneeSeagate Technology LLC
InventorsTim Rausch, Minjie Ma, Steven Granz, Kaizhong Gao, Wenzhong Zhu, Edward C. Gage
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Abstract
A storage device includes a storage controller configured to write a band of data tracks using a first recording method until criterion is met. The first method may be a conventional recording method. After the criterion is met, the storage controller is configured to write data to the band using a second recording method. The second recording method may be an enhanced capacity recording method such as interlaced magnetic recording (IMR) or shingled magnetic recording (SMR).
Claims20
A storage device, comprising:
- a storage media;
- and
- a storage device controller configured to:
- write data to a band of data tracks on the storage media using a first recording method until a criterion is met,
- read the data of the band of data tracks into a memory after the criterion is met, and
- write the data to the band of data tracks on the storage media using a second recording method different from the first recording method.
A method comprising:
- recording data to a target band using a first recording method until a criterion is met;
- and
- recording data to the target band using a second recording method after the criterion is met, wherein the second recording method is different from the first recording method.
One or more processor-readable storage media encoding computer-executable instructions for executing on a storage device a computer process, the computer process comprising:
- recording data to a target band using a first recording method until a criterion is met;
- and
- recording data to the target band using a second recording method after the criterion is met.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.