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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 06, 2014
Filed:
Dec. 19, 2011
Hon Kong Liew, Bukit Rimau, MY;
Rokhaizam Bin Mohd Ali, Shah Alam, MY;
Minh N. Trinh, Irvine, CA (US);
Hon Kong Liew, Bukit Rimau, MY;
Rokhaizam Bin Mohd Ali, Shah Alam, MY;
Minh N. Trinh, Irvine, CA (US);
Western Digital Technologies, Inc., Irvine, CA (US);
Abstract
A disk drive tester is disclosed operable to test a plurality of disk drives, each disk drive comprising a head actuated over a disk. The disk drive tester comprises a plurality of test slots, where each test slot is operable to receive one of the disk drives. The disk drive tester further comprises an interface for receiving vibration data from the disk drives, wherein the vibration data at least partially represents a vibration applied to each disk drive by the respective test slot. The disk drive tester further comprises control circuitry operable to detect when one of the test slots is defective in response to the vibration data.