Patent ID: 9329800
Filing Date: 2016-05-03
CPC Classification: G06F

Claim Text:
1. A data storage system comprising: a data storage media having a plurality of zones, each zone allocated to store a book of data; and a nontransitory, tangible computer memory having computer instructions configured to execute a preferred zone scheduling routine that continuously collects qualitative information about a network load to the data storage system in order to dynamically characterize the network load, and in response to the network load characterization selectively limits content of a command queue to only transfer requests for a selected book of the plurality of books; wherein the preferred zone scheduling routine is configured to populate the command queue with transfer requests to a plurality of books when the network load is a substantially uniform distribution of the data storage media, but to populate the command queue with only the transfer requests for the selected book when the network load is a substantially non-uniform distribution of the data storage media.