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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 20, 2025
Filed:
Mar. 11, 2024
Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Tokyo, JP;
Toshiba Electronic Devices & Storage Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Ryo Kobayashi, Tokyo, JP;
Akio Mizuno, Tokyo, JP;
Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Tokyo, JP;
Toshiba Electronic Devices & Storage Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
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.