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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 04, 2014
Filed:
Dec. 17, 2008
Michael Edward Baum, Longmont, CO (US);
Jim Joseph Touchton, Boulder, CO (US);
Timothy Richard Feldman, Louisville, CO (US);
Mike Montemorra, Longmont, CO (US);
Michael Edward Baum, Longmont, CO (US);
Jim Joseph Touchton, Boulder, CO (US);
Timothy Richard Feldman, Louisville, CO (US);
Mike Montemorra, Longmont, CO (US);
Seagate Technology LLC, Cupertino, CA (US);
Abstract
In a particular embodiment, a storage device includes a controller that is adapted to receive environmental data from a plurality of environmental sensors, where the environmental data is related to an operating environment of the storage device. Further, the controller is adapted to receive state information related to the data storage medium from a plurality of firmware detectors, to weight the received environmental data and the received state information according to a pre-determined weighting table, and to dynamically manage at least one attribute of the storage device based on the weighted environmental data and the weighted state information.