Examining the feasibility of the urban mining of hard disk drives
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DOI: 10.1016/j.jclepro.2019.119216
Abstract: Abstract Cities are becoming one of the greatest generators of waste and thus a potential source of secondary materials. One of the most attractive waste streams in cities is waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE)… read more here.
Keywords: non destructive; separation; hard disk; feasibility ... See more keywords
Minimization of unobservable oscillation in repeatable run-out for magnetic-head positioning system of hard disk drives
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DOI: 10.1016/j.mechatronics.2017.04.004
Abstract: Abstract A positioning control system for a magnetic head in hard disk drives (HDDs) is a sampled-data control system that has a sampler and a hold. As a result, the control system has unobservable oscillations… read more here.
Keywords: magnetic head; system; minimization; hard disk ... See more keywords
A self-monitoring analysis and reporting technology dataset of 147,496 hard disks
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DOI: 10.1038/s41597-025-05457-z
Abstract: In order to study hard disk failure prediction,this paper introduces SMART-Z, a dataset comprising 147,496 pieces of hard disk SMART data periodically collected by a large distributed video data center in China in the enterprise… read more here.
Keywords: hard disk; disk; self monitoring; 147 496 ... See more keywords
A three-dimensional model for lubricant depletion under sliding condition on bit patterned media of hard disk drives
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DOI: 10.1063/1.5026817
Abstract: In this paper, we model the depletion dynamics of the molecularly thin layer of lubricants on a bit patterned media disk of hard disk drives under a sliding air bearing head. The dominant physics and… read more here.
Keywords: disk; patterned media; hard disk; depletion ... See more keywords
On the equation of state of the hard disk system: the fluid-hexatic phase transition
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DOI: 10.1080/00268976.2024.2368147
Abstract: The accuracy of four approximations proposed along time as equations of state for a homogeneous system of hard disks is compared against molecular dynamics results of $ 10^5 $ 105 disks in equilibrium [L. Mier-y-Terán,… read more here.
Keywords: fluid hexatic; system; hard disk; phase transition ... See more keywords
Old mechanical hard disk drive- an excellent tool to demonstrate oscillation experiments
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DOI: 10.1088/1361-6552/ad9f0d
Abstract: The scrapped old hard disk drive (HDD) includes a spindle motor and a voice coil motor (VCM), which can be modified to the adjustable oscillator in three ways. VCM arm can vibrate at a specified… read more here.
Keywords: oscillation experiments; motor; hard disk; disk drive ... See more keywords
Equation of state of polydisperse hard-disk mixtures in the high-density regime.
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DOI: 10.1103/physreve.96.062603
Abstract: A proposal to link the equation of state of a monocomponent hard-disk fluid to the equation of state of a polydisperse hard-disk mixture is presented. Event-driven molecular dynamics simulations are performed to obtain data for… read more here.
Keywords: state polydisperse; hard disk; equation state; disk ... See more keywords
Investigation of Offtrack Read Capability in Hard Disk Drive With Two-Dimensional Magnetic Recording (TDMR)
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DOI: 10.1109/tmag.2025.3542805
Abstract: This article investigates the offtrack read capability (OTRC) in hard disk drives utilizing Two-Dimensional magnetic recording (TDMR) technology. The offtrack bit error rate (BER) bathtub was measured in the 747 test, conducted over a range… read more here.
Keywords: hard disk; disk; read capability; offtrack read ... See more keywords
Feature Selection for Improving Failure Detection in Hard Disk Drives Using a Genetic Algorithm and Significance Scores
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DOI: 10.3390/app10093200
Abstract: Hard disk drives (HDD) are used for data storage in personal computing platforms as well as commercial datacenters. An abrupt failure of these devices may result in an irreversible loss of critical data. Most HDD… read more here.
Keywords: feature; disk; hard disk; smart attributes ... See more keywords
Incorporation of the intensive and extensive entropy contributions in the disk intersection theory of a hard disk system
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DOI: 10.5488/cmp.26.33501
Abstract: The one-body free volume, which determines the entropy of a hard disk system, has extensive (cavity) and intensive (cell) contributions. So far these contributions have not been unified and considered separately. The presented theory incorporates… read more here.
Keywords: system; hard disk; disk; disk system ... See more keywords