Western Digital Technologies, Inc.

Gary C Griffen

Lin Yang

Jin Hui Ou-Yang

Chiao-Ping (Roger) Ku

Michael G Choy

Jen-Tai Lin

There is provided a disk drive including a disk drive base, a disk rotatably coupled to the disk drive base, and a spindle motor attached to the disk drive base and configured to support the disk for rotating the disk with respect to the disk drive base. The disk drive further includes a filter component. The filter component includes a filter housing coupled to the disk drive base, and a filter element disposed within the filter housing for filtering disk rotation induced airflow. The filter element includes a coarse section and a fine section. The coarse section has a porosity greater than a porosity of the fine section.

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Boulder Creek, CA, United States of America

Gary C Griffen