High density disk drive performance enhancement system

A method for enhancing the performance of a high density disk drive that includes a magnetic disk for storing electronic data, the drive operative for spinning the disk, reading data from the disk, and writing data to the disk through an I/O head that travels over the disk, wherein the drive experiences I/O performance comprising write seek times when searching for available space to store write data and read seek times when searching for requested read data, comprising the steps of:

• distributing cache memory locations on the magnetic disk;
• writing data to the cache memory locations;
• reading data from the cache memory locations;
• identifying a high usage data block;
• storing the high usage data block in multiple cache memory locations distributed on the disk;
• receiving a subsequent I/O read request for the high usage data block;
• and
• reading the high usage data block from a closest cache memory location storing the high usage data block,
• wherein data is written to and read from the cache memory locations to enhance the I/O performance of the high density disk drive through reduced write and read seek times.

A computer storage disk storing non-transitory computer executable instructions for causing a computer system to enhance the performance of a high density disk drive that includes a magnetic disk for storing electronic data, the drive operative for spinning the disk, reading data from the disk, and writing data to the disk through an I/O head that travels over the disk, wherein the drive experiences I/O performance comprising write seek times when searching for available space to store write data and read seek times when searching for requested read data, comprising the steps of:

• distributing cache memory locations on the magnetic disk;
• writing data to the cache memory locations;
• reading data from the cache memory locations;
• identifying a high usage data block;
• storing the high usage data block in multiple cache memory locations distributed on the disk;
• receiving a subsequent I/O read request for the high usage data block;
• and
• reading the high usage data block from a closest cache memory location storing the high usage data block,
• wherein data is written to and read from the cache memory locations to enhance the I/O performance of the high density disk drive through reduced write and read seek times.