Abstract:
Apparatus and method for distributing power to a host computer (112). A first serial cable (145) establishes a first data link (146) and a first power transfer link (148) between a first serial port of a peripheral device (110) and the host computer. A second serial cable establishes a second data link (146) and a second power transfer link (148) between a second port of the peripheral device and an external power supply unit (PSU). A peripheral controller circuit (114) detects available power from the external PSU at a level suitable for use by the host device, notifies the host computer of the available power from the external PSU, and interconnects the first and second serial ports to flow the available power to the host device via the first and second power transfer links. The peripheral device may take the form of a solid-state drive (SSD) (110) with a non-volatile memory (118), such as flash memory.
Abstract:
The technology disclosed herein provides a method to control the resources used in a device. An implementation of such a method includes generating a device configuration ledger block based on initial assembly of components of a storage device, storing the device configuration ledger block on a node of a distributed ledger, detecting an activation of the device; in response to detecting the activation of the device, generating a current distributed ledger block based on current assembly of components of the storage device, comparing the current distributed ledger block with the device configuration ledger block, and in response to determining that the current distributed ledger block does not match with the device configuration ledger block disabling the operation of the device.
Abstract:
A heater power of a heat-assisted magnetic recording head is set to an initial power to induce an initial head-medium clearance. For a plurality of iterations, a heater power at an optimum laser power is determined that achieve a target clearance. If differences in the heater power and optimum laser power between the two subsequent iterations are below a threshold, the iterations are stopped and the heater power and the optimum laser power for one of the two subsequent iterations is used as an operational heater power and laser power for the heat-assisted magnetic recording head.
Abstract:
A magnetic recording head comprises a transducer, a heater, a writer and a laser. The transducer is configured to write to a magnetic recording medium during a write operation. The heater, writer and laser are configured to affect a protrusion of the transducer. The heater is calibrated to produce a pre -write heater power to obtain a target pre -write clearance for a write operation through use of a clearance-heater power curve. The curve is generated by measuring a clearance between the transducer and the medium as the heater is cycled from zero to a contact power.
Abstract:
A storage device includes a controller that implements an interlaced magnetic recording scheme with prioritized random access. According to one implementation, a controller is configured to write data at a first linear density to alternating data tracks and write data at a second linear density to one or more data tracks interlaced with the alternating data tracks.
Abstract:
Apparatus (400, 500) and method (200, 220, 240, 260, 280, 300) for detecting unauthorized tampering with a data storage device (100, 110, 140, 520). In some embodiments,the data storage device has a housing (112, 142) and a memory (192) supported by the housing. A first identifier value (202A, 222A, 242A, 262A, 282A, 306A) is stored on an external surface of the housing and a second identifier value (202B, 222B, 242B, 262B, 282B, 306B) is stored within the memory. A digital signature (210, 256, 296) generated in response to the first and second identifier values and in response to a private key (208, 254, 288) is stored on the storage device. Thereafter, the first identifier value is retrieved from the external surface of the housing and the second identifier value is retrieved from the memory. The storage device is authenticated using the retrieved first and second identifier values, the digital signature and a public key (228, 274, 312).
Abstract:
Provided herein is an apparatus, including a first region of a substrate corresponding to a data region in a patterned recording medium; a first set of protrusions etched out of the first region of the substrate, wherein the protrusions of the first set of protrusions are rectangle shaped; a second region of the substrate corresponding to a servo region in a patterned recording medium; and a second set of protrusions etched out of the second region of the substrate, wherein the second set of protrusions includes radial lines etched into the substrate across chevrons etched out of the substrate.
Abstract:
A plasma etching source (122) installable into at least one of multiple compartments (102, 104, 106, 108, 110) of a sputter deposition tool (100). The plasma etching source (122) includes a first mounting plate (302) and at least one electrode plate (304) coupled to the first mounting plate (302). A gas inlet (308) is included in the first mounting plate (302) of the plasma etching source (122).
Abstract:
An apparatus includes a memory and a controller. The memory includes a plurality of memory devices. Each memory device has a plurality of page types. The plurality of page types are classified based on error rate variations. The controller may be configured to write user data and error-correction data to the memory. The user data and the error-correction data are organized as a super-page. The super-page includes a plurality of sub-pages. The plurality of sub-pages are written across the plurality of memory devices such that the plurality of sub-pages are stored using more than one of the plurality of page types.
Abstract:
A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium may include instructions that cause a system to perform operations, the operations may include receiving an operation associated with data and managing storage of the data on a first storage medium of an electronic device and in a cache on a second storage medium of the electronic device based on the operation and a cache policy. The cache policy may be based on one or more characteristics of the data that include a duration since a previous access of the data.