Forced air system for cooling a high density array of disk drives
US6819560B2 · kind B2 · utility
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| Filing date | Oct 7, 2002 |
| Grant date | Nov 16, 2004 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Dec 17, 2022 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
- CPC primaryH05K7/20581
- WIPO fieldComputer technology
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
A cooling system for a data storage assembly having multiple disk drives disposed on a replaceable module. Air is drawn into a housing for the data storage assembly and through a planar array of disk drives, through a set of blowers and across a set of power supplies. Plenums are provided on top of and below the disk drives and the blowers. Air flowing through the array of disk drives only flows across a single layer of disk drives.
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