Inventor

HOWE STEVEN M

US8 patents

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WESTERN DIGITAL CORP

4 patents

US6145052ANov 7, 2000

Disk drive with adaptive pooling for command reordering

WESTERN DIGITAL CORP180 citations98

US6092149AJul 18, 2000

Disk drive cache system using a dynamic priority sequential stream of data segments continuously adapted according to prefetched sequential random, and repeating types of accesses

WESTERN DIGITAL CORP231 citations98

US6105104AAug 15, 2000

Method and apparatus for optimizing the data transfer rate to and from a plurality of disk surfaces

WESTERN DIGITAL CORP172 citations96

US5970508AOct 19, 1999

Disk drive employing allocation-based scan reporting

WESTERN DIGITAL CORP17 citations92

XIOTECH CORP

2 patents

US7100080B2Aug 29, 2006

Write cache recovery after loss of power

XIOTECH CORP42 citations91

US7380113B2May 27, 2008

Method for updating memory resident firmware as a background operation

XIOTECH CORP41 citations90

HIKEN MICHAEL S

1 patent

US7162587B2Jan 9, 2007

Method and apparatus for recovering redundant cache data of a failed controller and reestablishing redundancy

HIKEN MICHAEL S61 citations89

BROWN WILLIAM A

1 patent

US8892807B2Nov 18, 2014

Emulating a skip read command

BROWN WILLIAM A1 citations46