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Date of Patent:
Feb. 25, 2020

Filed:

Mar. 13, 2019
Applicant:

Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;

Inventor:

Tatsuya Ogawa, Tsukuba, JP;

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G11B 17/047 (2006.01); G11B 7/085 (2006.01); G11B 20/18 (2006.01); G11B 19/04 (2006.01); G11B 5/54 (2006.01); G11B 21/12 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G11B 20/1816 (2013.01); G11B 5/54 (2013.01); G11B 19/04 (2013.01); G11B 21/12 (2013.01);
Abstract

An object of the preset invention is to prolong the life of an HDD by performing load/unload control without reducing usability. The present invention is an information processing apparatus including: a hard disk drive; a control unit configured to perform control so that a load state in the hard disk drive is kept for a predetermined time; and a derivation unit configured to derive the number of times of load/unload in the hard disk drive, and the information processing apparatus further includes a change unit configured to change the predetermined time during which the load state is kept based on the operation time of the information processing apparatus and the number of times of load/unload.


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