Patent ID: 8149543

Claim:
A hard disk drive apparatus comprising: a magnetic head including a write head to record data on a disk and a read head to read the data from the disk; at least one actuator arm on which the magnetic head is mounted; a voice coil motor to rotate the at least one actuator arm across the disk; a printed circuit board electrically connected to the write head, the read head, and the voice coil motor; and a flexible printed circuit having at least one write trace to electrically connect the write head and the printed circuit board, at least one read trace to electrically connect the read head and the printed circuit board, and a voice coil motor trace to electrically connect the voice coil motor and the printed circuit board, wherein the at least one write trace is arranged between the read trace and the voice coil motor trace with less than two traces between one of the at least one write trace and the voice coil motor trace.