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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 11, 2003
Filed:
Aug. 29, 2002
Ronald W. Stence, Austin, TX (US);
John P. Hansen, Austin, TX (US);
Motorola, Inc., Schaumburg, IL (US);
Abstract
A data storage system utilizing a non-volatile IC based storage media to reduce data retrieval time. The data storage system includes a non-volatile, non IC based storage system such as e.g. a hard disk. In one example, the non-volatile IC based storage media is implemented with MRAM. In one example, the processor of the storage system determines a seek time between sectors of the hard disk drive allocated to store a file of user data. Based upon the determined seek time, the processor non-volatilely stores a portion (e.g. the leading portion or the trailing portion) of a block of the user data in the MRAM. When the data is being accessed from the hard disk, the processor can provide the data stored in the MRAM while a read/write head moves between the sectors in order to decrease the access time for a file.