Data storage medium with optimized servo format

A system comprising:

• a deck;
• a media surface disposed on the deck;
• and
• a read/write head suspended from the deck such that the read/write head is controllably positionable proximate to the media surface;
• wherein the media surface comprises:
• radial servo fields;
• two or more annular zones of storage tracks, each zone having a frequency with which the servo fields are written in that zone, that is different from a frequency of another zone;
• and
• a guard band of storage tracks between the zones, a storage track in the guard band having servo fields written with different frequencies.

A system, comprising:

• a read-write head;
• an apparatus comprising servo information having two or more frequencies;
• and
• a means for the read/write head to sync to the servo information at each of the frequencies on the apparatus.