Patent ID: 7873784

Claim:
A computing system, wherein said computing system includes a storage system that includes one or more storage devices and the computing system is operable to: initiate one or more access operations on said one or more storage devices to access data respectively stored in one or more sections of said one or more storage devices; determine whether said one or more sections of said one or more storage devices have been successfully accessed by said one or more access operations within a predetermined amount of time after said initiating of said one or more access operations; identify at least one of said one or more sections as an identified section for access time improvement when said determining determines that said at least one section has not been successfully accessed within said predetermined amount of time by said one or more access operations after said initiating of said one or more access operations; and rewrite content stored on said at least one identified section to said at least one identified section to improve the access time for accessing said at least one identified section.