Determining seek times

Ruben Michel (Inventor), Tao Kai Lam (Inventor), Eitan Bachmat (Inventor)

Research output: Patent

Abstract

A process determines a seek time of an access head of a physical storage disk. The process includes collecting statistical access data on physical storage volumes served by the access head and determining seek times for a set of reference head travel time functions. Each function depends on distances between pairs of the physical storage volumes. The process also includes performing a sum of the determined seek times. Each term of the sum is weighted by an expansion coefficient of a travel time function of the access head with respect to the set of reference head travel time functions.

Original languageEnglish
Patent numberUS6614616
IPCG11B 5/ 55 A I
Priority date31/03/00
StatePublished - 2 Sep 2003

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