Patent ID: 8250410

Claim:
A video recording and reproducing apparatus comprising: a first disk device and a second disk device; a mirroring unit configured to mirror video data and audio data to an identical logical address employed by said first disk device and said second disk device; a reading unit configured to read (i) the video data out of one of said first disk device and said second disk device, and (ii) the audio data out of another one of said first disk device and said second disk device; and a reproducing unit configured to reproduce, via synchronization, the video data and the audio data read by said reading unit, wherein each of said first disk device and said second disk device includes a storage area divided into a first area and a second area, and wherein said mirroring unit is configured to assign the first area and the second area in proportion to a reproduction rate representing a data transfer rate in reproducing the video data and the audio data, the first area and the second area being included in each of said first disk device and said second disk device.