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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 19, 2022
Filed:
Dec. 12, 2019
Amazon Technologies, Inc., Seattle, WA (US);
Keun Soo Jo, Bellevue, WA (US);
Munif M. Farhan, Bellevue, WA (US);
Andrew Kent Warfield, Vancouver, CA;
Seth W. Markle, Seattle, WA (US);
Roey Rivnay, Seattle, WA (US);
Amazon Technologies, Inc., Seattle, WA (US);
Abstract
Technologies are provided for accessing a physical location of a storage medium reader of a storage device. A computing device can transmit a request for the storage medium reader's physical location. The storage device can determine the physical location of the storage medium reader and transmit the location to the computing device. The computing device can use the physical location of the storage medium reader to determine an expected latency for retrieving one or more stored data items. The computing device can transmit a command to change the physical location of the storage medium reader, for example by changing a location of the storage medium reader with respect to a given storage medium and/or changing a storage medium that is accessed by the storage medium reader. The computing device can control the placement of the storage medium reader in order to optimize retrieval of data items from the storage device.