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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 20, 2015
Filed:
Mar. 04, 2014
Western Digital Technologies, Inc., Irvine, CA (US);
Dean V. Dang, Fountain Valley, CA (US);
Colin W. Morgan, Mission Viejo, CA (US);
Philip Bernard Saram, Kuala Lumpur, MY;
Western Digital Technologies, Inc., Irvine, CA (US);
Abstract
A hard disk drive assembly (HDA) operable with a host computer that comprises a printed circuit board assembly (PCBA) including a system on a chip (SOC). The HDA including a plurality of disks configured to store data, a plurality of heads configured to read and write data stored on the plurality of disks, a flex circuit board including a preamplifier, and configured to couple to the plurality of heads and the SOC, a flex circuit cable coupled to the flex circuit board, and a non-volatile semiconductor memory (NVSM) located in the HDA. The NVSM is configured to store configuration data for read and write operations of the HDA, wherein the configuration data is to be retrieved by the SOC for controlling the read and write operations of the HDA, and the NVSM is coupled to at least one of the flex circuit cable, the flex circuit board, or the preamplifier.