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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 11, 2013
Filed:
Sep. 29, 2009
Stephen J. Keefe, Boylston, MA (US);
Joseph L. Brigham, Jr., North Attleborough, MA (US);
Stephen J. Keefe, Boylston, MA (US);
Joseph L. Brigham, Jr., North Attleborough, MA (US);
EMC Corporation, Hopkinton, MA (US);
Abstract
A cooling system having a enclosure, a plurality of disk drives stored in the enclosure, a first portion of the disk drives having housings with a first form factor and a second portion of the disk drives having housings with a second form factor smaller than the first form factor, and an air baffle system for directing a flow of air internal the enclosure over portions of the housing of the second portion of the disk drives while at the same time creating a wall to maintain the flow of air over neighboring ones of the first portion of the disk drives (the external flow).