STORAGE DEVICE
A storage device includes plural recording media, a housing configured to accommodate the plural recording media, a plate that is fixed and extends round between two adjacent recording media in the housing, plural sliders each of which is mounted with a magnetic head that is configured to record information in or reproduce the information from a corresponding one of the plural recording media, and plural arms, each of which is mounted with one of the plural sliders only on a single surface, and configured to move the one of the plural sliders.
1 . A storage device comprising:
plural recording media;
a housing configured to accommodate the plural recording media;
a plate that is fixed and extends round between two adjacent recording media in the housing;
plural sliders each of which is mounted with a magnetic head that is configured to record information in or reproduce the information from a corresponding one of the plural recording media; and
plural arms, each of which is mounted with one of the plural sliders only on a single surface, and configured to move the one of the plural sliders.
2 . The storage device according to claim 1 , wherein the plate has a plate shape.
3 . The storage device according to claim 1 , wherein the plate has a first area in which the arm goes, and a second area in which the arm does not go, the first area being thinner than the second area.
4 . The storage device according to claim 3 , wherein the plate has a projection in the second area, which projection is closest to a corresponding one of the recording media.
5 . The storage device according to claim 3 , wherein the plate has a projecting outer edge in the second area.
6 . The storage device according to claim 5 , wherein part of the projecting outer edge has a notch.
7 . The storage device according to claim 6 , wherein the housing has an exhaust channel that is connected to the notch and encloses part of a corresponding one of the recording media.
8 . The storage device according to claim 1 , wherein the housing has an exhaust channel that extends parallel to a tangential direction of each recording media.
9 . The storage device according to claim 1 , wherein the plate has a cylindrical perforation hole, and the plate has a projection that extends from the cylindrical perforation hole to an outer circumference.
10 . The storage device according to claim 3 , wherein the plate has a cylindrical perforation hole, and the plate has a projection in the second area, which extends from the cylindrical perforation hole to an outer circumference.
11 . The storage device according to claim 9 , wherein the projection extends in a tangential direction of the cylindrical perforation hole.