Patent ID: 8095729

Claim:
A data storage system comprising: a plurality of disk drives, each disk drive in the plurality of disk drives in communication with a radio frequency network, at least one of the plurality of disk drives serving as a master disk drive and at least one of the plurality of disk drives serving as a slave disk drive; wherein the at least one master disk drive generates a synchronization signal based on a rotational position of at least one disk within the at least one master disk drive and encodes the synchronization signal as a radio frequency signal for transmission over the radio frequency network; wherein the at least one slave disk drive receives the radio frequency signal, decodes the received radio frequency signal to recover the synchronization signal, and modifies a rotational position of at least one disk within the at least one slave disk drive based on the recovered synchronization; and wherein the synchronization signal accounts for latency in rotation of the plurality of disk drives and latency in encoding and decoding the synchronization signal.