• The Transactions of the Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers D
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• v.53 no.6
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• pp.457-464
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• 2004

Hard Disk Drive (HDD) test system is an equipment for the final test of HDD product by iterative read/write/seek test. This paper proposes an expert system for the fault diagnosis of HDD test systems. The purposed expert system is composed with two cascade inference, fuzzy logic and conventional binary logic. The fuzzy logic determines the possibility of the system fault using the test history data, then, the binary logic inferences the fault location of the test system. The proposed expert system is tested in SAMSUNG HDD production line, KUMI, KOREA, and shows satisfactory results.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2003.11c
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• pp.625-628
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• 2003

This paper proposes a fuzzy expert system for the fault diagnosis of Hard Disk Drive(HDD) test systems. The purposes of this system are diagnosis of HDD test systems, detection of system faults using test history, and presentation of the way of repair. Proposed Expert system is designed with Fuzzy logic and Binary Logic to present the way of repair using HDD tort result, HDD test history. The proposed system is simulated with actual data from SAMSUNG HDD product line in KUMI, KOREA, and show effective results.

• Korean Journal of Air-Conditioning and Refrigeration Engineering
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• v.4 no.3
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• pp.233-241
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• 1992

Temperature distributions in a 3.5 inch hard disk drive including disk surface and internal air have been simulated numerically. Solutions were obtained from fifteen cases regarding three power consumption rates and five ambient conditions. As a result, the velocity of cooling air should be maintained greater than ㏐/s when the power consumption reached 3W in the disk drive. A correlation equation was proposed to predict the temperature field of disk surface and caseing surface.

• Proceedings of the KSME Conference
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• 2005.11a
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• pp.160.2-160.2
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• 2005

• Proceedings of the Korean Society for Noise and Vibration Engineering Conference
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• 1998.04a
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• pp.233-237
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• 1998

In this work, to identify the dynamic characteristics of disk-spindle system in hard disk drive, experimental modal analysis was performed. And an experimental analysis system including testing apparatus, precision sensors, and analysis software was established in order to perform the testing effectively. From the experimental results, coupled and uncoupled modal characteristics of 3-disk spindle system are clearly identified.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society for Noise and Vibration Engineering Conference
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• 2002.11a
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• pp.320.1-320
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• 2002

In a hard disk drive (HDD) control system, a state-space controller/observer design is popularly adopted fur its advantages such as effective filtering of position and velocity, use of estimation error to handle servo defects, etc. In this report, a systematic method is proposed to accommodate the transport delay in the plant dynamics into the state estimator. (omitted)

• The Journal of the Korea institute of electronic communication sciences
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• v.6 no.5
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• pp.665-671
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• 2011

The Competitiveness of Hybrid hard disk drive(H-HDD) for solid state disk(SSD) comes from both lower power consumption and higher reading speed. This paper suggests a prefetching scheme that can improve the performance of Non-Volatile cache(NVCache) memory installed on the H-HDD through prefetching disk blocks as well as files to the NVCache. The proposed scheme makes the highly used data such as booting files copy to the NVCache as an unit of file and the frequently accessed blocks copy to the NVCache. This prefetching is done on the idle time of disk queue and the priorities of prefetched target blocks are based on both time and spatial locality of blocks. Experiments results show that the suggested method can improve response time of H-HDD and also lower the power consumption.

• Tribology and Lubricants
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• v.16 no.6
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• pp.415-424
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• 2000

The use of magnetoresistive (MR) head requires much tighter control of particle contamination in a drive since loose particles on the disk surface will generate thermal asperities (TA). In this study, a spinoff test was performed to investigate the adhesion and removal capability of a particle to disk surface. Numerical simulation was also performed to investigate dominant factor of particle detachment and to support experimental results. It was shown that particles are detached from the disk surface by the moment derived from the centrifugal force and the drag force and that the centrifugal force and capillary force are the dominant force, which determines spin-off of a particle on the disk surface. Removal of particles smaller than several micrometers, which are the main source of TA generation, is extremely difficult since the adhesion forces exceed the centrifugal force. Lubricant types and manufacturing process also influence the particle removal. Lower bonding ratio and lower viscosity of the lubricant will help to increase the removal rate of the particles from the disk surface.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information Security & Cryptology
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• v.25 no.5
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• pp.1059-1065
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• 2015

Hard disk passwords are commonly not well known. If the passwords are set, forensic investigators are not allowed to access data on hard disks, so they can be used to obstruct investigations. Expensive tools such as PC-3000 are necessary for unlocking such hard disk passwords. But it would be a burden on both organizations that should pay for these tools and forensic investigators that are unfamiliar with these tools. This paper discusses knowledge required for unlocking hard disk passwords and proposes methods for unlocking the passwords without high-priced tools. And with a vendor-specific method, this paper provides procedures for acquiring passwords and unlocking hard disk drives.

• Transactions of the Society of Information Storage Systems
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• v.3 no.3
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• pp.139-143
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• 2007

In recent years new recording media and materials for head-disk interface (HDI) have been developed in order to increase the recording density of storage devices and decrease the cost of production. It is well known that HDI in hard disk drive (HDD) needs high durability and stability. The tribological characteristic of commercialized HDI systems is an important indicator of the HDD reliability. In this study, experimental investigation on the wear coefficient of commercialized hard disk slider pads was performed. The slider was placed on top of a hard disk and allowed to slide for a set distance. The wear of the pads was measured after the sliding tests. The result showed that the micro-bumps in commercialized HDD have extremely low wear coefficient of $10^{-11}$. The results of this work may be used for further development of the HDI technology for HDD.