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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 10, 2014
Filed:
May. 07, 2012
Dean V. Dang, Fountain Valley, CA (US);
Colin W. Morgan, Mission Viejo, CA (US);
Philip Bernard Saram, Kuala Lumpar, MY;
Dean V. Dang, Fountain Valley, CA (US);
Colin W. Morgan, Mission Viejo, CA (US);
Philip Bernard Saram, Kuala Lumpar, MY;
Western Digital Technologies, Inc., Irvine, CA (US);
Abstract
Disclosed is a disk drive that is operable with a host computer that includes a printed circuit board assembly (PCBA) having a system on a chip (SOC). The disk drive comprises: a hard disk drive assembly (HDA); and a non-volatile semiconductor memory (NVSM). The NVSM is located in the HDA and is couplable to the SOC of the host computer. The NVSM is configured to store configuration data for disk drive operation. The configuration data is configured to be retrieved by the SOC for controlling disk drive operations.