A hard disk drive device and a method and apparatus for control of the hard disk drive is provided. The hard disk drive includes disk media, a slider head, a head gimbal assembly and a control means. The disk media includes at least two layers for data storage. The slider head flies above the disk media and includes a writer and a reader, and a head gimbal assembly supports the slider head above the disk media. The control means is physically coupled to the head gimbal assembly and electrically coupled to the writer and the reader for reducing write interference from the writer when the writer is writing to the disk media while the reader is reading from the disk media, wherein write interference is reduced in one or more of a time domain and a frequency domain.