A storage device includes a controller that selects an offset when preparing to write data to a target data track. The offset defines a position for a write head relative to a center of the target track and is selected based on a radial position of a write head at the target data track.

A storage device includes a storage medium having a first set of non-adjacent data tracks having a number of super parity sectors and a second set of non-adjacent data tracks interlaced with the first set of non-adjacent data tracks. The number of super parity sectors on a data track of the first set of non-adjacent data tracks is selected based on a distance between the data track and an inner diameter of the storage medium.

A storage device includes a storage controller configured to write a band of data tracks using a first recording method until criterion is met. The first method may be a conventional recording method. After the criterion is met, the storage controller is configured to write data to the band using a second recording method. The second recording method may be an enhanced capacity recording method such as interlaced magnetic recording (IMR) or shingled magnetic recording (SMR).