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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 29, 2021
Filed:
Apr. 17, 2020
Applicant:
Western Digital Technologies, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Inventors:
Robert P. Ryan, Mission Viejo, CA (US);
Shrey Khanna, San Jose, CA (US);
Assignee:
Western Digital Technologies, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G11B 5/09 (2006.01); G11B 5/53 (2006.01); G11B 5/49 (2006.01); G11B 5/596 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G11B 5/537 (2013.01); G11B 5/4992 (2013.01); G11B 5/59605 (2013.01);
Abstract
A data storage device is disclosed comprising a first head actuated over the first disk surface, and a second head actuated over a second disk surface. A concurrent access of the first and second disk surface is executed by accessing the first disk surface without accessing the second disk surface during a single access interval, and after the single access interval, concurrently accessing the first and second disk surface during a dual access interval.