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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 29, 2025
Filed:
Jan. 29, 2024
Western Digital Technologies, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
WESTERN DIGITAL TECHNOLOGIES, INC., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
Various illustrative aspects are directed to a data storage device, method, and one or more processing devices that are configured to: maintain a refresh monitor for a refresh zone of one of the one or more disks, wherein the refresh zone comprises at least one data sector; update the refresh monitor in response to a write operation being performed in a track different than a track containing the refresh zone; update the refresh monitor at predefined time intervals based on a temperature of the one of the one or more disks or of the data storage device; and control a refresh operation of the refresh zone using the refresh monitor.