HDD head having same gap verify and system for using same

Magnetic disk device

Magnetic disk device

MAGNETIC DISK DEVICE AND METHOD

MAGNETIC DISK DEVICE AND METHOD

Data storage device adjusting refresh monitor based on a learning based feedback control

Data storage device using laterally offset read element to compensate for tape stretch

Hard disk fault handling method, array controller, and hard disk

Method and apparatus for modulating a laser power signal during heat-assisted magnetic recording

Data storage device with separate actuators

Magnetic disk device

Hard disk fault handling method, array controller, and hard disk

Hard disk fault handling method, array controller, and hard disk

DISK DEVICE AND READ PROCESSING METHOD

Optical storage system divider based draw verification with high frequency writing strategy pattern

Saturation-based verification of magnetic tape storage

Method and apparatus for caching data in an solid state disk (SSD) of a hybrid drive that includes the SSD and a hard disk drive (HDD)

Optical storage system divider based DRAW verification with high frequency writing strategy pattern

Multi-writer head with a single operational writer

DATA PROTECTION SYSTEM

Method and apparatus for storing data in a storage system that includes a final level cache (FLC)

Multiple rereading data from storage medium using weight average

Caching systems and methods for hard disk drives and hybrid drives

Recording and reproducing apparatus

Erasing recorded data by utilizing read head and write head

Flexible virtual defect padding

Laser power optimization for heat assisted interlaced magnetic recording

Laser power optimization for heat assisted interlaced magnetic recording

Magnetic disk apparatus, controller and data processing method

Erasing recorded data by utilizing read head and write head

Caching systems and methods for hard disk drives and hybrid drives

Optical information recording/reproduction device, and optical information recording/reproduction method

Margining decoding utilizing soft-inputs

Hard disk data recovery method, apparatus, and system

Rotary head data storage and retrieval system and method for data verification

Optical information recording device and method

Read/write apparatus and read/write method

RECORDING REGIONS IN A SHINGLED MAGNETIC HARD DISK DRIVE SYSTEM

Disk storage apparatus and data protection method

Optical read/write apparatus

Shingled magnetic recording disk drive with inter-band disk cache and minimization of the effect of far track erasure on adjacent data bands

Magnetic disk apparatus and data refresh method

System, method and apparatus for shingled magnetic recording in disk drives

Method and system for error checking in bit-patterned media

METHOD FOR PLAYING BACK RECORDING MEDIUM AND RECORDING MEDIUM PLAYBACK DEVICE USING THE SAME

Apparatus and method for writing data based on drive state

Hard disk drive, method for operating the same, and computer system having the same

Optical disk apparatus

Media processing system, control method for media processing system, and media processing device

Media processing system, control method for media processing system, and media processing device

Recording reproducing apparatus and recording reproducing method

Compensation for cross-track deviation

System and method for managing errors on a magnetic tape

Reducing errors resulting from width variability of storage media write tracks

Writing data to a tape

Shingled recording apparatus and method capable of detecting drifted-off writing

Directional write retry for shingled disk drive application

Method of determining defects in information storage medium, recording/reproducing apparatus using the same, and information storage medium

Magnetic recording device, controller thereof, and magnetic recording method

Tape Cartridge Formatted with Increased Data Redundancy for Testing and Repair of a Defective Tape Drive

Data recording method and apparatus for re-verifying correctness of recorded data on optical storage medium

Magnetic disk drive and method for rewriting data block

Storage device and method for controlling projection amount of head

Optical Storage System and Method for Writing Data to an Optical Disc

Device and method for error detection

DISK DEVICE AND WRITE METHOD

Storage apparatus, patrolling method and storage system

Systems and methods for storing data to magnetic tape having damaged areas

READ RETRY METHOD AND APPARATUSES CAPABLE OF PERFORMING THE READ RETRY METHOD

Method, apparatus, and storage medium for processing write defect in data storage apparatus

Systems and Methods for Noise Reduced Data Detection

Content recording method and apparatus

Systems and methods for stepped data retry in a storage system

Hard-disk drive and control method for magnetic recording on a patterned medium of the hard-disk drive

Data reproducing apparatus and data reproducing method

MAGNETIC DISK DEVICE

DISK DRIVE

Scanning reassigned data storage locations

Write once disc allowing management of data area, method of managing the data area, and apparatus and method for reproducing data from write once disc

Optical Recording Method and Apparatus

Write once disc allowing management of data area, method of managing the data area, and apparatus and method for reproducing data from write once disc

Optical disc device, optical disc recording method, and reproduction method

Systems and methods for operating a disk drive

INFORMATION RECORDING APPARATUS, INFORMATION RECORDING METHOD, AND INTEGRATED CIRCUIT

Error compensation using a reserve track

DEVICE AND METHOD FOR DETERMINING DEFECT SECTOR ON OPTICAL DISC

Information recording apparatus, information recording method and integrated circuit

Random access control method and optical disc driver

Optical information recording device and method

Recording device and method, computer program, and recording medium

Rewriting codeword objects to magnetic data tape upon detection of an error

DEFECT DETECTING METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR OPTICAL DISC

STORAGE DEVICE AND CONTROL DEVICE

Single-pass defect detection for hard-disk drive systems

Recording/reproducing apparatus for performing RMW for low, recording/reproducing method therefor, and information storage medium therefor

Systems and methods for storing data to magnetic tape having damaged areas

Time-shifted bits for write synchronization correction

Storage Subsystem and Method for Verifying Data Using the Same

Optical disk drive and method for data recording of optical disk drives

Storage drive performance characterization

Data storage device

BACK-UP METHOD FOR DEFECTIVE DATA

Data storage device and adjacent track rewrite processing method

HARD DISK DRIVE AND METHOD OF SETTING A WRITE-VERIFY TEMPERATURE THEREOF

PERPENDICULAR HEAD WITH WIDE TRACK WRITING CAPABILITY AND METHODS OF MEDIA TESTING

ELECTRONIC INFORMATION STORAGE APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM

Method and system for cache-based dropped write protection in data storage systems

Storage system and method for opportunistic write-verify

Optical disk recording apparatus and method for controlling optical disk recording

Vibration-aware data reassignment

Recording/reproducing apparatus and recording/reproducing method

DATA ERROR MEASURE BASED RECORDING SPEED CONTROL

Content data recording apparatus and method

Method of determining defects in information storage medium, recording/reproducing apparatus using the same, and information storage medium

Method and system for compensating for tape deformation

Method of writing data to a disc, disc drive

System, method, and apparatus for characterizing, tracking, and segregating known defective disk regions on patterned disks

METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DETECTING OPTICAL DISK STATE

Writing method for optical disk drive

Method and system for error checking in a bit-patterned media

Read after write enhancement for bit patterned media

Information-recording system and method, program-storing medium, and program

Apparatus, system, and method for efficiently verifying writes

Apparatus, method and computer program for processing information

Data protection system

DATA PROTECTION SYSTEM

Random access control method and optical disc drive

Data protection system

Data recording/reproduction for write-once discs

Method and apparatus for managing disc defect using temporary DFL and temporary DDS including drive & disc information disc with temporary DFL and temporary DDS

METHOD OF RECORDING DATA ON A WRITE ONCE DISC, AND THE WRITE ONCE DISC

Multiple section read/write head

TECHNIQUE FOR DETERMINING THE START POSITION TO WRITE DATA ON TAPE WITH RESISTANCE FOR MEDIA DEFECT

Integrated spiral certification head for media magnetic testing including PMR and LMR media

Method and apparatus for managing disc defect using temporary DFL and temporary DDS including drive and disc information disc with temporary DFL and temporary DDS

INFORMATION RECORDING MEDIUM, RECORDING/REPRODUCING METHOD, AND RECORDING/REPRODUCING APPARATUS

INFORMATION RECORDING MEDIUM, RECORDING/REPRODUCING METHOD, AND RECORDING/REPRODUCING APPARATUS

Information recording medium, recording/reproducing method, and recording/reproducing apparatus

INFORMATION RECORDING MEDIUM, RECORDING/REPRODUCING METHOD, AND RECORDING/REPRODUCING APPARATUS

INFORMATION RECORDING MEDIUM, RECORDING/REPRODUCING METHOD, AND RECORDING/REPRODUCING APPARATUS

INFORMATION RECORDING MEDIUM, RECORDING/REPRODUCING METHOD, AND RECORDING/REPRODUCING APPARATUS

INFORMATION RECORDING MEDIUM, RECORDING/REPRODUCING METHOD, AND RECORDING/REPRODUCING APPARATUS

INFORMATION RECORDING MEDIUM, RECORDING/REPRODUCING METHOD, AND RECORDING/REPRODUCING APPARATUS

INFORMATION RECORDING MEDIUM, RECORDING/REPRODUCING METHOD, AND RECORDING/REPRODUCING APPARATUS

INFORMATION RECORDING MEDIUM, RECORDING/REPRODUCING METHOD, AND RECORDING/REPRODUCING APPARATUS

INFORMATION RECORDING MEDIUM, RECORDING/REPRODUCING METHOD, AND RECORDING/REPRODUCING APPARATUS

Information recording medium, recording/reproducing method, and recording/reproducing apparatus

Information recording medium, recording/reproducing method, and recording/reproducing apparatus

INFORMATION RECORDING MEDIUM, RECORDING/REPRODUCING METHOD, AND RECORDING/REPRODUCING APPARATUS

INFORMATION RECORDING MEDIUM, RECORDING/REPRODUCING METHOD, AND RECORDING/REPRODUCING APPARATUS

INFORMATION RECORDING MEDIUM, RECORDING/REPRODUCING METHOD, AND RECORDING/REPRODUCING APPARATUS

INFORMATION RECORDING MEDIUM, RECORDING/REPRODUCING METHOD, AND RECORDING/REPRODUCING APPARATUS

INFORMATION RECORDING MEDIUM, RECORDING/REPRODUCING METHOD, AND RECORDING/REPRODUCING APPARATUS

INFORMATION RECORDING MEDIUM, RECORDING/REPRODUCING METHOD, AND RECORDING/REPRODUCING APPARATUS

INFORMATION RECORDING MEDIUM, RECORDING/REPRODUCING METHOD, AND RECORDING/REPRODUCING APPARATUS

METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MANAGING DISC DEFECT USING TEMPORARY DFL AND TEMPORARY DDS INCLUDING DRIVE & DISC INFORMATION DISC WITH TEMPORARY DFL AND TEMPORARY DDS

INFORMATION RECORDING MEDIUM, RECORDING/REPRODUCING METHOD, AND RECORDING/REPRODUCING APPARATUS

Optical recording medium, recording/reproducing apparatus and recording/reproducing method

OPTICAL RECORDING MEDIUM, RECORDING/REPRODUCING APPARATUS AND RECORDING/REPRODUCING METHOD

Method and apparatus for managing disc defect using temporary DFL and temporary DDS including drive and disc information, and disc with temporary DFL and temporary DDS

OPTICAL RECORDING MEDIUM, RECORDING/REPRODUCING APPARATUS AND RECORDING/REPRODUCING METHOD

N-dimensional iterative ECC method and apparatus with combined erasure—error information and re-read

WRITE-ONCE DISC, RECORDING APPARATUS THERETO, AND METHOD OF REDUCING ACCESS TIME THERETO

INFORMATION RECORDING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, AND WRITE CONTROL METHOD

Method, computer program product, and computer system for detecting a corruption in a data block stored by a tape recording apparatus

OPTICAL RECORDING METHOD AND APPARATUS

Write-once disc having update area and condition test area

WRITE-ONCE DISC, RECORDING APPARATUS THERETO, AND METHOD OF REDUCING ACCESS TIME THERETO

WRITE-ONCE DISC, RECORDING APPARATUS THERETO, AND METHOD OF REDUCING ACCESS TIME THERETO

Write once disc allowing management of data area, method of managing the data area, and apparatus and method for reproducing data from write once disc

Write once disc allowing management of data area, method of managing the data area, and apparatus and method for reproducing data from write once disc

WRITE ONCE DISC ALLOWING MANAGEMENT OF DATA AREA, METHOD OF MANAGING THE DATA AREA, AND APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR REPRODUCING DATA FROM WRITE ONCE DISC

Write once disc allowing management of data area, method of managing the data area, and apparatus and method for reproducing data from write once disc

Control apparatus, storage apparatus, and computer product

Method of writing data using coercivity distribution of data storage medium

Disk recording/reproducing apparatus and disk recording method

Rapid regeneration of failed disk sector in a distributed database system

Write processing method for optical storage device and optical storage device

HELICAL-SCAN-TYPE MAGNETIC TAPE RECORDING AND REPRODUCING APPARATUS AND MAGNETIC TAPE RECORDING AND REPRODUCING METHOD

Method and data storage devices for a RAID system

Method and apparatus for quantifying stress and damage in magnetic heads

Error correction scheme for a disc-playing system

Information recording/playback apparatus and information recording/playback method

Optical disk apparatus and recording parameters setting method

Data storage device and defective area management method therefor

Apparatus, system, and method for a storage device's enforcing write recovery of erroneous data

Medium drive and method of generating a defect map for registering positions of defects on a medium

Method and apparatus for ensuring writing integrity in mass storage systems

Rewrite strategy and methods and systems for error correction in high-density recording

Maintaining data integrity in a data storage system

Magnetic disk drive, method for registering defective sector, and method for controlling flying height

Information recording/reproducing apparatus and information recording method

Optical disc apparatus and optical disc recording method

Storage apparatus, and control method and program

Method and system for recording data with data verifying process

Information processing apparatus, data storage method, and data storage program

APPARATUSES AND RELATED METHODS OF WRITING QUALITY CONTROL FOR OPTICAL RECORDING

Methods for optical disc sector verification

Optical disk device

Method for reducing access time of a write-once disc

Method and systems for a highly error tolerant tape format

Method of determining size of error and write control method for hard disc drive, hard disc drive using the write control method, and media storing computer programs for executing the methods

Multi-level mapping of tape error recoveries

Storage system, storage control device, and storage control method detecting read error response and performing retry read access to determine whether response includes an error or is valid

Data storage apparatus that either certifies a recording medium in the background or verifies data written in the recording medium

Medium storage device and write path diagnosis method

Magnetic recording device

Optical disk drive

Method and apparatus for managing disc defect using temporary DFL and temporary DDS including drive and disc information disc with temporary DFL and temporary DDS

Method and apparatus for managing disc defect using temporary DFL and temporary DDS including drive & disc information disc with temporary DFL and temporary DDS

Apparatus to record data on a write once disc

Method for recording data to a write once disc

Data randomization for rewriting in recording/reproduction apparatus

Method and apparatus for managing disc defect using temporary DFL and temporary DDS including drive and disc information disc with temporary DFL and temporary DDS

Magnetic disk drive with function assignment and manufacturing method therefor

Magneto-optical disc device and method for writing data on magneto-optical disc

Information recording device, information recording method, and recording medium region management method

Recording/reproducing apparatus for performing RMW for low, recording/reproducing method therefor, and information storage medium therefor

Method of determining defects in information storage medium, recording/reproducing apparatus using the same, and information storage medium

Performing retry operations

Contents recording medium compensation system, contents recording and playback devices, and contents recording and playback methods

Apparatus for recording data to and/or reproducing data from a write once disc

Information-recording system including error detection and a data recording position adjustment unit and method, program-storing medium, and program

Error correction extending over multiple sectors of data storage

Method and apparatus for managing disc defect using temporary DFL and temporary DDS including drive and disc information disc with temporary DFL and temporary DDS

System, method, and computer program for verifying data on information recording medium

Data writing method

Recording control device, recording control method, program and recording system

Methods for optical disc sector verification

Data protection system

Information recording medium, recording/reproducing method, and recording/reproducing apparatus

Recording apparatus, host apparatus, semiconductor integlated circuit, recording method, program and information recording medium

Recording/reproducing apparatus

Optical recording medium, recording/reproducing apparatus and recording/reproducing method

Optically recorded data discrimination apparatus and associated methodology

Environmental stress protection scheme for a data storage device

Method of improving the reading speed of an optical drive

Identifying systematic errors in a data recording system

Apparatus for and method of handling failure in reading motion picture data from storage medium and reproducing the same

Information recording and reproducing method and information recording and reproducing device

Magnetic disk device

End-to-end fixity check for archival storage based on high-performance integrity test with data quality using self-describing tape format

Saturation-based verification of magnetic tape storage

Detecting shingled overwrite errors

Detecting shingled overwrite errors

Selectable magnetic writers of different target geometries for reducing performance variance