Patent ID: 8275967

Claim:
A contiguous digital media storage system comprising: at least one memory device storing machine readable code executable by one or more processors the memory having one or more allocation areas thereon, each allocation area having one or more segments and one or more contiguous blocks are allocated from the one or more segments, the machine readable code comprising; an allocator subsystem, the allocator subsystem configured to: identify a position of sequentially sensitive data within a sequence of data to be stored on a mass storage device, the identifying may occur by receiving client information from one or more client devices, analyzing one or more file characteristics, or both, acquire a particular segment from the one or more segments based on a segment number, the segment number determined by taking a quotient resulting from dividing the position of the sequentially sensitive data by an average file quantity for one or more preceding segments; assign the particular segment to the segment number if the particular segment has not previously been acquired; and determine a file position within the particular segment, the file position determined by taking a remainder resulting from dividing the position of the sequentially sensitive data by the average file quantity for the one or more preceding segments and allocate one or more contiguous blocks on the mass storage device, a location of the one or more contiguous blocks based on the position of the sequentially sensitive data within the sequence of data to be stored on the mass storage device; and a metadata subsystem, the metadata subsystem in communication with the allocator subsystem and configured to maintain file system information, wherein the allocator subsystem, the metadata subsystem, or both are configured to communicate with one or more client devices to write the sequentially sensitive data from the one or more client devices to the one or more contiguous blocks allocated by the allocator subsystem based on the position of the sequentially sensitive data in relation to the sequence of data to be stored on the mass storage device.