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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 25, 2021
Filed:
Dec. 19, 2019
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Tatsuya Ogawa, Tsukuba, JP;
CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A storage control apparatus capable of suppressing reduction of the service life of a storage device, caused due to increase of the number of times of ON/OFF operation of a spindle motor, while suppressing occurrence of accidental failure of the spindle motor. The storage control apparatus is equipped with an HDD including a magnetic disk and the spindle motor for rotating the magnetic disk. A value indicating a use state of the storage control apparatus is acquired, and the operation mode of the HDD is set, based on the acquired value, to one of a suppression operation mode for suppressing the total rotation time of the spindle motor and a normal operation mode for suppressing the number of times of ON/OFF operation of the spindle motor.