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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 30, 2003
Filed:
Jul. 11, 2000
Roger F. Hoyt, San Jose, CA (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
An apparatus and method for a low power consuming disk drive unit comprising multiple HDD subsystems having spindles and associated disk platter(s) supported thereon, read-write heads and actuators for positioning the read-write heads. The disk platter(s) of each HDD subsystem may differ in diameter, rate of rotation and formatting. The method by which the disk drive unit operates to reduce the power requirements of the disk drive unit is to have the controller selectively power the smaller/more efficient HDD subsystem the majority of the time to store frequently accessed information and not to power the multiple larger/less efficient HDD subsystems that store the less frequently accessed information, thereby achieving reduced power needs for the disk drive unit.