Patent ID: 11862203
Assignee: WESTERN DIGITAL TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
Field: Audio-visual technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 5:
6. A data storage system comprising:
a plurality of media drives in a single drive bay, each media drive configured for writing to and reading from magnetic recording disk media and configured for having a contaminant-controlled internal environment;
a disk cartridge bay positioned adjacent to the drive bay; and
a disk cartridge, positioned in the disk cartridge bay, comprising a plurality of contaminant-controlled compartments each configured for housing a corresponding internally contaminant-controlled disk tray each configured to support a magnetic recording disk medium; and
an internal contaminant-controlled robotic machine comprising a disk transfer mechanism comprising:
a seal mechanism comprising a translatable seal plate configured at times flush with a surrounding shroud, and
a set of pins configured to extend through the seal plate and to move in a direction while extended through the seal plate.