摘要:
A hard disk drive slider (129) has an air bearing surface that uses the ambient air in the disk drive as a heat source for thermal-assisted recording. Incoming air between the slider (129) and the disk surface is pressurized to produce heat sufficient to heat the recording media. A very small thermal pad is located at the trailing end (203) of the air bearing surface and wraps around the magnetic recording head. The thermal pad includes small pockets to contain the heated air to provide heat to the recording media. The air can be pressurized to approximately 80 atm, which is sufficient to raise the air temperature to approximately 800 degrees C at isentropic conditions. The heated air transfers the heat energy to the recording media by conduction to achieve a disk surface temperature of more than 200 degrees C. This is the recording layer temperature required for thermomagnetic recording.
摘要:
To ensure that a perpendicular magnetic recording medium having a granular magnetic recording layer made of CoCrPt alloy and Si oxide provides both high SNR and thermal stability. A substantially amorphous grain boundary layer of a magnetic recording layer made of CoCrPt alloy and Si oxide contains a ferromagnetic element in a concentration from 30at.% to 50at.% or more preferably from 35at.% to 47at.% so that intergrain exchange interaction takes place moderately. As a consequence, SNR of 18 dB or more and thermal stability of 3%/decade or less are achieved.
摘要:
As part of the fabrication of a magnetic tunnel junction (MTJ), a magnesium oxide (MgO) tunnel barrier is reactively sputter deposited from a Mg target in the presence of reactive oxygen gas (O 2 ) in the "high-voltage" state to assure that deposition occurs with the Mg target in its metallic mode, i.e., no or minimal oxidation. Because the metallic mode of the Mg target has a finite lifetime, a set of O 2 flow rates and associated sputter deposition times are established, with each flow rate and deposition time assuring that deposition occurs with the Mg target in the metallic mode and resulting in a known tunnel barrier thickness. The commencement of undesirable Mg target oxidation is associated with a decrease in target voltage, so the sputtering can also be terminated by monitoring the target voltage and terminating application of power to the target when the voltage reaches a predetermined value.
摘要:
A method for magnetic recording uses a fixed write current with thermal assistance to record on a patterned perpendicular magnetic recording medium. The patterned medium has magnetic blocks or islands, each of which contains a stack of individual magnetic cells to provide multilevel recording. Each cell in an island is formed of a material or set of materials to provide the cell with perpendicular magnetic anisotropy and is a single magnetic domain. Each cell is magnetically decoupled from the other cells in its island by nonmagnetic spacer layers. Thus each cell can have a magnetization (magnetic moment) in one of two directions (into or out of the plane of the layer making up the cell), and this magnetization is independent of the magnetization of the other cells in its island. This permits multiple magnetic levels or states to be recorded in each magnetic island.
摘要:
A falsification detection method is provided which is capable of recognizing the substance of a falsification, applicable to not only a specific file system, but also any arbitrary application writing data with a logical structure, usable in a standalone environment and able to prevent its performance from deteriorating even for a very large data size. Data stored in the storage medium employed in a disk drive is divided into meta information expressing a data structure and contents. At a step 130, time transients of the meta information are analyzed whereas, at steps 140 and 150, time transients of the contents are analyzed. By analyzing the data at two stages in this way, replacement of a file and replacement of contents of the file can be detected whereas the substance of a falsification can be recognized in the case of a file system. In addition, by providing every block in the storage medium employed in the disk drive with a flag area that can be updated by the disk drive but only referred to by a host, a falsification can be detected even if the falsification results from a write operation carried out by using an illegal access path.
摘要:
A ferroelectric three-dimensional solid-state memory is formed from a plurality of bit lines, a plurality of layers, a plurality of tree structures and a plurality of plate lines. The bit lines are arranged in a first plane and extend in a first direction. Each layer includes an array of ferroelectric capacitor memory cells. Each tree structure corresponds to a bit line and has a trunk portion and a plurality of branch portions. The trunk portion of each tree structure extends from a corresponding bit line. Each branch portion corresponds to a layer and extends from the trunk portion of the tree structure. Plate lines is arranged in each layer and overlap the branch portion of each tree structure in the corresponding layer at a plurality of intersection regions. A 0T-FeRAM memory cell is located at each intersection region in a layer.
摘要:
To improve the performance of a HDD. MBR is read from a magnetic disk 121. The read MBR is stored in a sector buffer 307 by an event handler 304. A segment control section 302 acquires the MBR stored in the sector buffer 307 and refers to the partition type field to identify the file system. The segment control section refers to a cache mode table 305 and selects a cache mode which is associated with the file system specified in the MBR. In the subsequent read and write operations, buffer handling and command execution control are performed according to the determined cache mode. Since an appropriate cache mode is selected depending on the file system, it is possible to raise the performance.
摘要:
Data is written to a hard disk drive using shingled writing principles, i.e., each data track is partially overwritten when an immediately contiguous data track is written. Two or more contiguous data tracks establish a band, and a band may store data from one and only one file, such as an AV file.
摘要:
An embodiment of the invention is a head for perpendicular recording that has a trailing shield and side shields that are connected to the return pole piece by two studs of ferromagnetic material. The studs extend parallel to the track direction and are located a sufficient distance away from the main pole piece to reduce the flux flow from the main pole piece to the studs. Optionally the studs can be recessed behind the air-bearing surface. The preferred embodiment of the invention is a magnetic transducer with separated read and write heads for perpendicular recording.
摘要:
A hard disk drive slider (129) has an air bearing surface that uses the ambient air in the disk drive as a heat source for thermal-assisted recording. Incoming air between the slider (129) and the disk surface is pressurized to produce heat sufficient to heat the recording media. A very small thermal pad is located at the trailing end (203) of the air bearing surface and wraps around the magnetic recording head. The thermal pad includes small pockets to contain the heated air to provide heat to the recording media. The air can be pressurized to approximately 80 atm, which is sufficient to raise the air temperature to approximately 800 degrees C at isentropic conditions. The heated air transfers the heat energy to the recording media by conduction to achieve a disk surface temperature of more than 200 degrees C. This is the recording layer temperature required for thermomagnetic recording.