System and method to avoid disk lube pooling

A computer program product stored on a non-transitory computer operable media, the computer operable media containing instructions for execution by a computer, which, when executed by the computer, cause the computer to distribute lubrication on a hard drive, the method comprising:

• detecting an access to a target track located on the hard drive;
• in response to detecting the access to the target track, computing a track access count corresponding to the target track;
• determining that the track access count exceeds a track access threshold;
• and
• scanning a portion of the hard drive in response to the determining, wherein the scanning results in uniformly distributing the lubrication over the target track and one or more adjacent tracks, the one or more adjacent tracks being adjacent to the target track.

An information handling system comprising:

• one or more processors;
• a memory accessible by the processors;
• a hard drive accessible by the processors;
• and
• a set of instructions stored in the memory, wherein one or more of the processors executes the set of instructions in order to perform actions of:
• detecting an access to a target track located on the hard drive;
• in response to detecting the access to the target track, computing a track access count corresponding to the target track;
• determining that the track access count exceeds a track access threshold;
• and
• scanning a portion of the hard drive in response to the determining, wherein the scanning results in uniformly distributing lubrication over the target track and one or more adjacent tracks, the one or more adjacent tracks being adjacent to the target track.