US 12,243,559 B1
Hard disk drive (HDD) with acoustic noise detection
Ke Du, Fremont, CA (US); and Matthew Kim, San Jose, CA (US)
Assigned to Marvell Asia Pte Ltd, Singapore (SG)
Filed by Marvell Asia Pte Ltd, Singapore (SG)
Filed on Sep. 18, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/468,827.
Application 18/468,827 is a division of application No. 17/500,800, filed on Oct. 13, 2021, abandoned.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/091,269, filed on Oct. 13, 2020.
Int. Cl. G11B 20/24 (2006.01); G11B 27/36 (2006.01); G11B 33/14 (2006.01); G11B 5/55 (2006.01)
CPC G11B 20/24 (2013.01) [G11B 27/36 (2013.01); G11B 33/1413 (2013.01); G11B 5/5586 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A system controller configured to:
receive data corresponding to determined noise detected by a plurality of microphones, each respective microphone being positioned within a respective hard disk drive (HDD) in a plurality of HDDs; and
control a cooling level of a cooling system configured to cool the plurality of HDDs based on the received data and acoustic noise information associated with each respective HDD in the plurality of HDDs.