Systems and methods for controlling multiple operations of disk drives are described herein. An embodiment includes, receiving firmware to control a disk drive, processing the firmware, configuring the disk drive in a performance mode and a storage mode based on the processing step, storing original data and at least one mirror copy of the original data on an outer region of a disk, if the disk drive is configured in the performance mode in the configuring step, and storing original data throughout the disk including all inner and outer regions, if the disk drive is configured in the storage mode in the configuring step. In this way, a disk drive may be configured for multiple operations.