Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.

Joo-Won Cho

Jong-yun Yun

Kwang-Hoon Park

A hard disk drive (HDD) includes a disk, a spindle motor assembly for rotating the disk, an arm assembly for reading data from and/or reproducing data onto the disk, integrated circuits (ICs) for controlling the spindle motor and arm assemblies, a printed circuit board (PCB) having integrated circuit (IC) mounting areas on which the ICs are mounted and a through-hole open to at least one of the IC mounting areas and a base to which the spindle motor assembly, arm assembly and PCB are assembled, the base including a heat dissipation column contacting the PCB opposite the IC mounting area so as to transfer heat generated by the IC to the base. The heat dissipation column includes a heat dissipation body and at least one hemispherical protrusion protruding from a surface of the body into the through-hole and into contact with the PCB. The base has a simple structure that is easy to manufacture, and the heat dissipation column of the base does not affect the overall size of the HDD and can effectively dissipate the heat generated by the IC during the operation of the HDD.

Support structure of electronic device and hard disk drive comprising the same

A disk drive, medium, and method controlling a write parameter of a disk drive are provided. The method of compensating for a write parameter, in order to control a write operation of a disk drive, can includes measuring a bit error rate in an optimum write condition and a bit error rate in a weak write condition for a head, and calculating a compensation value for a write parameter corresponding to a difference between the bit error rates in an optimum write condition and the bit error rate in the weak write condition. In a method, according to embodiments of the present invention, a compensation value alpha for compensating a write parameter for a predetermined period of time after the start of a write operation can be generated to prevent a weak write phenomenon at the beginning of the write operation.

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Joo-Won Cho