A hard disk drive (HDD) having a spindle motor, at least one data storage
disk, a disk clamp fastened to the spindle motor and fixing the disk to
the spindle motor, and at least one disk spacer mounted on the spindle
motor to support the disk. The disk spacer includes a ring-shaped disk
spacer body fitted around an outer circumference of the spindle motor
with at least one surface contacting the disk, a first groove on the
surface of the spacer body contacting the disk, a second groove on the
surface of the spacer body contacting the disk to extend along both sides
of the first groove, and a damping member between the spacer body and the
disk to reduce vibrations of the disk, seated in the first groove in a
normal state and compressed by the disk, a portion of which is deformed
and accommodated in the second groove.