Patent ID: 8140744
Filing Date: 2012-03-20
Classification: G11B

Abstract:
1. A method comprising: compressing a block of data to a compressed data size smaller than an uncompressed data size; formatting the compressed block of data to store the compressed data on a storage segment of a data storage media including a reserved portion having a data size corresponding to an uncompressed data size of the compressed data and to provide an unused portion of the reserved portion of the storage segment having a data size equal to a difference between the uncompressed data size and the compressed data size; adding at least one of redundancy data or a pad pattern to fill the unused portion of the reserved portion of the storage segment; and data and the at least one of the redundancy data or the pad pattern to the reserved portion of the storage segment having the uncompressed data sizewriting a pad byte pattern to any remaining portion of the reserved portion of the storage segment.