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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 08, 2016
Filed:
Dec. 18, 2014
Western Digital Technologies, Inc., Irvine, CA (US);
Derrick E. Burton, Ladera Ranch, CA (US);
Michael J. Therrien, Lyons, CO (US);
Thao Hieu Banh, Lake Forest, CA (US);
Tom S. Chan, San Marino, CA (US);
Western Digital Technologies, Inc., Irvine, CA (US);
Abstract
A data storage device is disclosed comprising a head actuated over a disk comprising a plurality of data tracks. Data is encoded into a first number of codewords, and the first number of codewords are interleave written to a first segment of a first data track. Data is encoded into a second number of codewords, and the second number of codewords are interleave written to a second segment of the first data track. The first number of codewords is different than the second number of codewords, and a size of the first segment is different than a size of the second segment.