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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 19, 2017
Filed:
Feb. 10, 2015
Netapp Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Macen Shinsato, Wichita, KS (US);
NetApp, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Abstract
The present disclosure provides a chassis housing an increased density of smaller storage devices. The chassis houses one or more power supplies, one or more input/output modules, and hot swappable, front accessible field replaceable units. The field replaceable units have a depth that is greater than their width and height, so as to accommodate dual storage devices one in front of the other. The proximal storage device connects to a midplane of the chassis via an interposer card situated between the proximal and distal storage devices. The interposer card conditions any signals that exhibit signal integrity problems after traversing between the midplane and the interposer card. The interposer card connects to the midplane via a bridge card and a flexible connector running underneath the distal storage device. Each field replaceable unit is placed into the front end of the chassis in a vertical orientation with respect to the chassis.