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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 15, 2025
Filed:
Feb. 27, 2023
Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development Lp, Spring, TX (US);
John R. Grady, Cypress, TX (US);
Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP, Spring, TX (US);
Abstract
A drive adaptor has an adaptor volume defined between a front wall, a rear wall, a first side wall, and a second side wall. The drive adaptor further includes a third side wall and a fourth side wall disposed between the first and second side walls and connected to the front and rear walls to define a drive compartment within a portion of the adaptor volume. Each of the third and fourth side walls includes one or more retention elements. The drive compartment receives a first form factor drive and the one or more retention elements retains the first form factor drive in the drive compartment. The drive adaptor is received in a drive carrier volume of a drive carrier, where a width of the drive carrier volume conform to a width of a second form factor drive, which is greater than a width of the first form factor drive.