WO2001096991A1 - Packaging system for mass memory units having uniform or mixed form factors - Google Patents
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- G11B33/125—Disposition of constructional parts in the apparatus, e.g. of power supply, of modules the apparatus comprising a plurality of recording/reproducing devices, e.g. modular arrangements, arrays of disc drives
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- G06F1/184—Mounting of motherboards
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- This invention relates to the efficient packaging of mass memory units
- Hard disk drive units currently available for
- this application typically employ 3.5 inch drives configured into one of two
- 1.6 inch form factor disk drives may be summarized as follows:
- the 1.6 inch disk drives generally have higher capacity and offer lower
- cost per unit of storage provided (i.e., cost per megabyte).
- cost per megabyte the one inch disk drives generally are less costly per
- Disk drives in servers or disk subsystems are usually packaged in
- the canisters each have a connector adapted to
- one inch disk drive canisters occupy the same "height" dimension as the 1.6
- memory which includes a backplane (or other connector plane) module having
- FIG. 1 is a connector end view of an exemplary 1.6 inch form factor
- FIG. 2 is a view similar to FIG. 1 of an exemplary one inch form factor
- FIG. 3 is a side view of the canister shown in FIG. 1 ;
- FIG. 4 is a side view of the canister shown in FIG. 2;
- FIG. 5 shows a pair of one inch form factor disk drive canisters plugged
- FIG. 6 is a side view of the canisters and backplane shown in FIG. 5;
- FIG. 7 shows a pair of 1.6 inch form factor disk drive canisters plugged
- FIG. 8 is a side view of the canisters and backplane shown in FIG. 7;
- FIG. 9 is a plane view of a backplane module according to the present
- FIG. 10 is a side view of the backplane shown in FIG. 9;
- FIG. 11 is a plan view illustrating three one inch form factor disk drive
- FIG. 12 is a side view of the backplane and canisters shown in FIG. 11 ;
- FIG. 13 is a plan view illustrating two 1.6 inch form factor disk drive
- FIG. 14 is a side view of the backplane and canisters shown in FIG. 13;
- FIG. 15 is a front view of a standard nineteen inch rack mount
- FIG. 16 illustrates fifteen one inch form factor disk drive canisters
- FIG. 17 illustrates ten 1.6 inch form factor disk drive canisters plugged
- FIG. 18 illustrates an exemplary mix of one and 1.6 inch form factor
- disk drive canisters having two different form factors into a single rack mount.
- FIGs. 1 and 3 illustrates an
- exemplary 1.6 inch form factor disk drive canister 1 shown in a simplified
- An integral connector 2 is
- FIGs. 2 and 4 illustrate an exemplary one inch form factor
- disk drive canister 3 in end and side views, respectively with an integral
- each connector is centrally positioned across the
- invention may be used to advantage include: Fiber Channel Arbitrated Loop
- FC-AL FC-AL
- SCSI SCSI
- SSA ATA
- ATA ATA
- FIGs. 1-4 are exemplary only; however, in accordance with the
- the positions of the connectors 2, 4 should be substantially the same (typically centrally disposed) across the width of the canisters 1, 3 and more
- connectors are keyed, as represented by the trapezoidal shape shown, in order
- FIGs. 5-8 illustrate exemplary prior
- a backplane module 10 in the
- backplane connectors 11 A, 11B spaced apart to
- canisters 1 conventionally engage the backplane connectors 11 A, 11B which
- backplane 10 by engaging connectors 4 with backplane connectors 11 A, 11B.
- backplane module 20 incorporates three backplane connectors 21 A, 2 IB, 21C
- outer connectors, 21C in the example are oriented identically; however, the
- first outer connector 21 A is situated
- backplane module 20 as the outer edge 22C of the second outer connector 21C
- Disk drives are manufactured so that inverted operation is permissible
- FIGs. 11-18 show that two 1.6 inch disk
- FIGs. 11 and 12 illustrate three one inch disk
- the canisters 30B, 30C are oriented in the same manner (i.e., "top side up") to
- the canister 30A is inverted 180° (i.e., "top side down") to
- FIGs. 13 and 14 illustrate two 1.6 inch disk drive canisters
- canister 31A is inverted 180° (i.e., “top side down") with respect to the
- FIGS. 9 and 10 have been described above with respect to peripheral
- FIGs. 15-18 show an illustrative practical disk drive subsystem or disk
- inch rack mount 40 incorporates five backplane modules 41 A, 4 IB, 41C, 4 ID, 4 IE according to the invention.
- the backplane modules are rotated 90° from
- FIG. 17 shows an array of ten 1.6 inch disk drive form factor
- canisters 43A. 43B plugged into the rack mount 40.
- the five canisters 43 A are
- FIG. 18 illustrates an exemplary configuration in which a mix of
- rack mount 40 More particularly, from left to right, there are arranged two 1.6
- the twelve canisters 42 A 42B, 43 A, 43B are all closely spaced to achieve an efficient and compact assemblage of different
- backplane modules 41 A, 4 IB, 41C, 4 ID, 4 IE can be integrated into a
- modules may be individual, plural or a plurality integrated into an extended,
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