Apparatus, systems and processes for reducing a hard disk drive's access time and concomitant power optimization

摘要

Rotational latency is reduced in a standard conventional form factor HDD system by replacing, for example, the prior art rotary arm actuator of a conventional HDD, with one or more belts and pulleys and one or more read/write heads mounted on, or otherwise associated with the belts. Multiple scaled iterations facilitate energy savings and power optimized systems, without compromise to data access performance.

主权项

1. An apparatus comprising a belt, a pulley, and a read/write head, the belt and the pulley configured to dispose the read/write head over a surface of a data recording medium and to move the read/write head with respect to the surface.