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Date of Patent:
May. 20, 2025

Filed:

Mar. 11, 2024
Applicants:

Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Tokyo, JP;

Toshiba Electronic Devices & Storage Corporation, Tokyo, JP;

Inventors:

Ryo Kobayashi, Tokyo, JP;

Akio Mizuno, Tokyo, JP;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G11B 5/00 (2006.01); G11B 5/02 (2006.01); G11B 5/55 (2006.01); G11B 20/10 (2006.01); G11B 20/18 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G11B 20/10009 (2013.01); G11B 5/02 (2013.01);
Abstract

According to one embodiment, a magnetic disk device includes a disk, a head, a volatile buffer memory, a nonvolatile memory, a main power supply, and a control unit. The control unit includes a write processing unit, a management unit, a data protection processing unit, a counter, and a determination unit. When the determination unit determines that a difference has reached a threshold, the management unit returns write data of the volatile buffer memory, which is original data of write data of a track in which a count value becomes a maximum value among tracks, to a protection target.


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