Method and apparatus for increasing disc drive performance

Dynamic magnetic information storage or retrieval – General processing of a digital signal – Redundant or complimentary tracks

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360 48, G11B 509

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061634220

ABSTRACT:
A method of managing information to be stored on a storage disc in a disc drive system to achieve improved system performance. Some of the data on the disc may be mirrored on the same surface of the disc to reduce latency and/or seek time. Compression techniques may be employed to limit reductions in the storage capacity of the disc. In another embodiment, data is preferentially stored on the outer tracks of the disc because system performance is greater when accessing outer tracks. Compression techniques may also be employed with this embodiment to limit reductions in the storage capacity of the disc. Compressed data stored on the disc may be transferred to another storage medium in its raw compressed form to reduce the number of instructions that would be required to transfer the data if it were decompressed before transfer.

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