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Drop Proofing a Hard Disk Drive
Overview Designing a hand held device, like a PDA, cell phone or MP3 player with a hard disk drive requires designing in some kind of drop protection. Until now, that protection usually consisted of some foam isolation, and/or some plastic suspension that "Gives" when the unit hits a hard surface thus reducing the exterior shock force to a smaller value than is tolerated by the HDD. Thanks to some new technology from Hitachi Metals, the drop sensor technology that is used in the laptop computers has been reduced in size so that Hitachi Global Storage Technologies (GST) can place that sensor in the new Microdrive 3K8 as an optional feature called Extra Sensory Protection (ESP).
| Publisher | Hitachi | File Format | |
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| Date Published | August 2005 | Downloads | 1 |
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