A conductor assembly for a high performance standard configuration disc drive having smaller than standard discs

摘要

A magnetic disc drive assembly comprises a disc drive housing having an external three-dimensional configuration matching a standard configuration. A disc drive (100) is supported in the housing (102) and includes a stack of rotatable rigid magnetic recording discs (104) in a unique configuration wherein each disc has a diameter smaller than the diameter or rigid discs ordinarily contained in a disc drive housing having the standard configuration. Optionally, the stack of discs includes a number of discs greater than that normally housed in a disc drive housing having the standard configuration. Various techniques are employed to achieve the unique disc configuration, including a conductor assembly (214) electrically connecting transducers (144) on the E-block to a flex circuit (172, 220) and employing fins (218) supported in slots (204) in the E-block wherein the fins (218) are retained in the slots (204) by the tension in flexible conductors within the conductor assembly (214) due to the mounting of said conductors to the transducer and the flex circuit.