Dg. Porter et al., PHYSICALLY-BASED INFORMATION-SCIENCE OF MAGNETIC RECORDING .2. PHYSICAL SOURCES OF MEDIUM NOISE, IEEE transactions on magnetics, 30(6), 1994, pp. 4266-4268
A physically based model for a magnetic recording medium is augmented
by the simulation of reading with a standard head model. The medium no
ise generated by this model comprises a repeatable component and a non
-repeatable component. The repeatable component of medium noise is par
tially statistically characterized. The non-repeatable component of me
dium noise is shown to depend on the intrinsic properties of the recor
ding medium in a manner consistent with the medium's computed storage
capacity bound.