Seagate Technology Incorporated

Kai C Chen

Harry Tiotantra

Wenxiang Xie

Feng Shen

Jun Cai

Jian Qiang

Andrew Michael Kowles

WeiQing Zhou

TzePin Chin

A method includes receiving at a storage device a command from a host. When learning is active on the storage device, an initial parameter value of a plurality of parameter values is used for performing a first action of a plurality of actions for the command. The first action is performed using the initial parameter value of the plurality of parameter values for the command The first parameter value is incremented to a next parameter value of the plurality of parameter values for the command for use in reperforming the first action.

Onboard machine learning for storage device

Apparatus and method for managing data in a hybrid data storage device. In some embodiments, a hybrid data storage device operates in a normal mode in which data transfer commands received from a host device are serviced by a top level controller circuit which directs a first subset of the received data transfer commands to a non-volatile rotatable recording memory and a second subset of the received data transfer commands are directed to a non-volatile solid-state memory. The controller circuit transitions to a performance mode responsive to a detected first parameter so that subsequently received data transfer commands are directed exclusively to the solid-state memory. The controller circuit terminates the performance mode and resumes the normal mode responsive to a detected second parameter.

Hybrid data storage device with performance mode data path

Apparatus and method for managing metadata in a data storage device. In some embodiments, a metadata object has entries that describe data sets stored in a non-volatile write cache. During an archival (persistence) operation, the metadata object is divided into portions, and the portions are copied in turn to a non-volatile memory at a rate that maintains a measured latency within a predetermined threshold. A journal is formed of time-ordered entries that describe changes to the metadata object after the copying of the associated portions to the non-volatile memory. The journal is subsequently stored to the non-volatile memory, and may be subsequently combined with the previously stored portions to recreate the metadata object in a local memory. The measured performance latency may be related to a specified customer command completion time (CCT) for host commands.

Latency sensitive metadata object persistence operation for storage device

An exemplary write method disclosed herein includes receiving a request to write data to a consecutive sequence of logical block addresses (LBAs); identifying a first non-contiguous sequence of data tracks mapped to a first portion of the consecutive sequence of LBAs; and identifying a second non-contiguous sequence of data tracks mapped to a second portion of the consecutive sequence of LBAs, where the second portion sequentially follows the first portion. The method further includes writing the data of the second portion of the consecutive sequence of LBAs to the first non-contiguous sequence of data tracks during a first pass of a transducer head through the radial zone and writing the data of the first portion of the consecutive sequence of LBAs to the second non-contiguous sequence of data tracks during a second, subsequent pass of the transducer head through the radial zone.

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Kai C Chen