Patent ID: 11966584
Assignee: EMC IP HOLDING COMPANY LLC
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 12:
13. A computer program product tangibly stored on a non-volatile computer-readable medium and including machine-executable instructions, which when executed by a device, cause the device to perform actions of managing a storage device, the actions comprising:
determining whether a data access component of the storage device will move by comparing a time interval threshold with a plurality of data access time intervals between a plurality of data accesses to the storage device within a predetermined length of time prior to a current time, wherein the determining is based on whether each of the plurality of data access time intervals is greater than the time interval threshold;
in response to determining that the data access component will move, determining a first storage unit in the storage device based on a storage location of previously accessed data in the storage device, the first storage unit corresponding to a first spatial location at which the data access component is currently located; and
sending a read request for data in a second storage unit in the storage device that is adjacent to the first storage unit to cause the data access component to move from the first spatial location to a second spatial location corresponding to the second storage unit.