MICROWAVE ASSISTED MAGNETIC RECORDING AND MAGNETIC STORAGE DEVICE

Disclosed is a technique of providing a large-capacity magnetic storage device at high device manufacturing yield while keeping the reliability, the magnetic storage device enabling recording on a perpendicular magnetic recording medium having distribution of characteristics in the circumferential direction as well at high track density of 500 kTPI or more that would be expected from the average characteristics of the medium. A recording condition from is selected for each sector from a parameter table that stores a set of at least two types of recording conditions by a microwave assisted magnetic recording head including a magnetic recording pole and a high-frequency magnetic field oscillator in the magnetic storage device, and information is recorded for each sector based on the condition.