Tempered pacing of shingled magnetic storage devices

A method of operating a data storage device, the method comprising:

• receiving storage operations transferred over a host interface that comprise write operations for storage of write data on the storage media and responsively storing the write data in a first storage region of the storage media prior to transferring into a SMR storage region of the storage media;
• determining a reporting pace for reporting transfer of the write operations from the first storage region into the SMR storage region, the reporting pace establishing a target performance over the host interface that is tempered from a storage pace of storing the write data into the first storage region;
• and
• reporting completion of the write operations over the host interface at the reporting pace.

A data storage system, comprising:

• a plurality of data storage devices configured to receive storage operations for storage and retrieval of data on associated storage media, each of the associated storage media comprising a magnetic recording (SMR) storage region;
• each of the plurality of data storage devices comprising:
• a storage control system configured to receive associated storage operations transferred by a host system that comprise write operations for storage of write data on the storage media and responsively store the write data in a first storage region prior to transferring into the SMR storage region;
• the storage control system configured to determine a reporting pace for reporting transfer of the write operations from the first storage region into the SMR storage region, the reporting pace establishing a target performance that is tempered from a storage pace of storing the write data into the first storage region to normalize performance across ones of the plurality of data storage devices;
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• the storage control system configured to report completion of the write operations at the reporting pace.