Influence of Writing ITI Effects in Shingled Magnetic Recording

Abstract

In this paper, the influence of the intertrack interference (ITI) at writing in shingled magnetic recording (SMR) as well as at reading is examined using a read/write model based on recording on a medium composed of discrete Voronoi diagram by a triangular writer with trailing and one-side shields. Two kinds of ITI's at writing which affect the magnetic grains on the track currently being written and the previously recorded track are shown. One is that a part of signal on the previously recorded track remains on the current track due to lack of writing ability of writer. Another is that a part of signal is erased by the next-track writing. The effects are caused from the adjacent tracks at writing. Additionally the ITI at reading deteriorates the read-back waveform. Consequently these ITI's bring the decoding errors. The results by computer simulation using above R/W model show that the decoding errors occur in the low density parts of track which were originally considered to be hard to make errors.