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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 24, 2015
Filed:
Mar. 26, 2014
Toshiba Global Commerce Solutions Holdings Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Brian E. Blair, Raleigh, NC (US);
Donald Johnson, Cary, NC (US);
Abstract
A hard disc drive (HDD) of a larger native capacity is clipped to emulate a smaller capacity drive by allocating storage space in tracks in at least both a radially innermost region and radially outermost region of the platter(s). During normal operation, when data is written to or read from the clipped HDD, the actuator arm will move through its entire, normal range of motion, as the read/write heads seek tracks in both the radially inner and outer regions of the platter(s). In some embodiments, storage space is also allocated from tracks in regions interposed between the inner and outer regions. In one embodiment, all tracks on the platter(s) are divided into regions of substantially equal data storage capacity, and the storage space is allocated for the clipped HDD is divided substantially evenly across all the regions.