for selecting which entry or entries in the table to remove when the table is or is near full without negatively impacting ati prevention thus allowing a table of predetermined size to be maintained that accurately predicts ati risk once ati risk is known appropriate measures for example data scrubbing rewriting data can be taken embodiments of the invention balance parameters affecting ati in order to select appropriate candidates for retention and ejection from the table embodiments of the invention for example take into account the write count to a candidate track and the order in which the a candidate track is added to the table in order to ascertain which entries in the table can be discarded ejected and which entries in the table should be maintained embodiments of the invention guard against ejecting recently written entries that have not accumulated sufficient writes and guard against ejecting entries with many writes but that have not been recently written to fig3 fig 6 illustrate one non limiting and exemplary suitable mechanism for managing an ati risk log table according to embodiments of the invention however it should be noted that this is merely presented as a non limiting example of one presently preferred embodiment of the invention those having ordinary skill in the relevant art.