Patent ID: 8190837
Filing Date: 2012-05-29
Classification: G06F,G11B,H04N

Abstract:
1. A method of storing data on a hard disk drive system, the method comprising the steps of: 1) selecting a first data storage element comprising m sequentially arranged hard disk drives, wherein m is two or more; 2) sequentially writing the data simultaneously on each of the m hard disk drives of the first data storage element until the first data storage element is filled to capacity; 3) selecting a next data storage element of m sequentially arranged hard disk drives; 4) sequentially writing the data simultaneously on each of the m hard disk drives of the next data storage element until the next data storage element is filled to capacity; 5) repeating steps 3 and 4 until a predetermined number of data storage elements have been filled to capacity; wherein the next data storage element overlaps the previous data storage element by less than m hard disk drives of the previous data storage element.