Patent ID: 11934673
Assignee: SEAGATE TECHNOLOGY LLC
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 10:
11. A data storage device comprising:
at least one data storage medium;
a workload rating associated with data access operations carried out on the at least one data storage medium; and
a controller configured to:
enable performance of the data access operations; and
change a rate of consumption of the workload rating by internal device management operations carried out in the data storage device in response to a change in a workload consumed by host commands serviced by the data storage device;

wherein the controller is configured to change the rate of consumption of the workload rating by changing caching policies of the data storage device; and
wherein:
the at least one data storage medium comprises at least one data storage disc having a media cache portion and main storage portion;
the data storage device further comprises a solid state cache memory; and
changing the caching policies comprises changing one or more criteria that determine whether to transfer data from the solid state cache memory to the media cache portion prior to transferring the data to the main storage portion.