Effects of Slider Geometry Change on Helium Filled HDD

Abstract:

This paper describes the static characteristics of helium filled hard disk drive for a self-acting two rails flat slider gas bearing. Numerical scheme based on the finite difference with multi-grid multi-level technique were implemented for the ultra-low flying height sliders. The effect of slider geometry change in both crown and camber on flying height have been examined in this research work. The results show that the flying height change is significantly with a few nanometers change in crown and camber. The flying height of helium filled magnetic flat slider head equal to 3.5 nm at trailing edge. The spacing for helium filled hard disk drive is lower than 4 nm when compared with conventional air filled hard disk drive. The increase of slider crown, the flying height increases rapidly but the increase of slider camber, the flying height decreases continuously.

• Periodical: Advanced Materials Research (Volumes 971-973)
• Pages: 1210-1213
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMR.971-973.1210
• Online since: June 2014
• Authors: Mongkol Mongkolwongrojn*, Kunchit Kuanoon
• Keywords: Finite Difference Method, Helium Filled HDD, Modified Reynolds Equation, Slider Geometry Change in Camber, Slider Geometry Change in Crown

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