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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 11, 2019
Filed:
Mar. 28, 2018
Seagate Technology Llc;
Chris R. Fulkerson, Longmont, CO (US);
Abhay T. Kataria, Longmont, CO (US);
Seagate Technologies LLC, Cupertino, CA (US);
Abstract
Embodiments described herein provide an apparatus that is operable with a storage system. The storage system includes a controller operable to assign a pointer to a first track of a magnetic disk when data is written to the first track. The pointer points to the end of the data in the first track. The controller is also operable to detect a successive write to an earlier written portion of the first track, to update a location of the pointer based on the successive write to the earlier written portion of the first track, to increment a write count of the first track based on the successive write to the earlier written portion of the first track, and to rewrite a track adjacent to the first track when the write count breaches a threshold number.