There is provided a disk drive including a disk drive base, a disk
rotatably coupled to the disk drive base, and a spindle motor attached to
the disk drive base and configured to support the disk for rotating the
disk with respect to the disk drive base. The disk drive further includes
a filter component. The filter component includes a filter housing
coupled to the disk drive base, and a pair of filter elements disposed
within the filter housing for filtering disk rotation induced airflow.
Each filter element includes a coarse section and a fine section, wherein
the coarse section is positioned upstream of the fine section relative to
a direction of the induced airflow.