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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 16, 2004
Filed:
Oct. 07, 2002
Applicant:
Inventors:
Michael V. Konshak, Louisville, CO (US);
Dale R. Eichel, Broomfield, CO (US);
Jimmy R. Fechner, Lafayette, CO (US);
Assignee:
Storage Technology Corporation, Louisville, CO (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/16 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/16 ;
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.