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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 12, 2011
Filed:
Jul. 17, 2008
Seong-jun Ahn, Seoul, KR;
Hyung-gyu Lee, Seoul, KR;
Jung-hwan Kim, Seoul, KR;
Young-bong Kim, Seoul, KR;
Sine Kim, Pohang-si, KR;
Young-il Seo, Suwon-si, KR;
Chan-ho Park, Suwon-si, KR;
Seong-jun Ahn, Seoul, KR;
Hyung-gyu Lee, Seoul, KR;
Jung-hwan Kim, Seoul, KR;
Young-bong Kim, Seoul, KR;
Sine Kim, Pohang-si, KR;
Young-il Seo, Suwon-si, KR;
Chan-ho Park, Suwon-si, KR;
Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Suwon-si, KR;
Abstract
A method of prefetching data in a hard disk drive includes searching for a logic block address (LBA) of data requested by an external apparatus in a history of a non-volatile cache of the hard disk drive, and if the LBA of the data is stored in the history, storing data recorded in a LBA stored after the LBA of the data requested by the external apparatus from among LBAs stored in the history in a buffer of the hard disk drive.