Method of manufacturing a hermetically sealed disk drive

A method of producing a hard disk drive having disk drive mechanisms, said disk drive mechanisms including:

• a plurality of storage planers;
• a plurality of read/write heads, an actuator arm for positioning said plurality of read/write heads across surfaces of said plurality of platters;
• and a platter spindle, said method comprising the steps of:
• providing connector means comprising a spindle connector and a read/write connector;
• attaching said connector means to a PC board by using a solder fixture means to align said connector means located at predetermined positions of said solder fixture means with predetermined positions on said PC board and then soldering said connector means onto said PC board at said predetermined positions on said PC board;
• providing header means comprising a spindle header and a read/write header;
• attaching said header means to a base by using an assembly fixture means to align said header means relative to slot means located in said base and, while so aligned, then affixing by epoxy, said spindle header within a first slot of said slot means and then affixing, by screws, said read/write header within a second slot of said slot means;
• coupling a cover on to said base creating a hermetically sealed chamber for housing said disk drive mechanisms and also creating a seal junction between the edges of said cover and said base;
• and
• coupling said spindle connector with said spindle header and coupling said read/write connector with said read/write header so that there are no connector means, which couple said drive mechanisms and said PC board, located within said seal junction of said hermetically sealed chamber.