Patent ID: 10839841

Abstract:
Provided herein is an apparatus including a disk drive base, wherein the disk drive base includes a first metal composition with a first CTE (“coefficient of thermal expansion”). A disk drive cover is attached to the disk drive base, wherein the disk drive cover includes a second metal composition with a second CTE that are different from the first metal composition and the first CTE. An arm is connected to a reader and a writer, wherein the arm is coupled to the disk drive base, the reader and the writer are separated by a distance, and the distance affects an MR (“magnetoresistive”) offset. In response to temperature changes between 0° C. and 60° C., the first material and the second material expand and contract comparably and proportionally. In further response to the temperature changes between 0° C. and 60° C., a change in the MR offset is less than 10% or a preferably defined range of a track pitch on a recording medium attached to the disk drive base.