Patent ID: 9706687
Date: 2017-07-11
CPC Classifications: G11B,H05K

Claim:
1. An electronic equipment chassis comprising: a housing having a front portion and a rear portion; first and second rows of cooling modules disposed at respective upper and lower levels of the front portion; and a plurality of storage devices arranged in the front portion between the first and second rows of cooling modules; wherein the electronic equipment chassis has a rack mount configuration for mounting of the electronic equipment chassis in an electronic equipment rack; wherein at least a subset of the cooling modules and at least a subset of the storage devices are configured for each such cooling module and storage device to be individually removable from the chassis through a vertical plane of the front portion of the housing; a given one of the cooling modules of the subset of cooling modules thereby being removable from the chassis through the vertical plane of the front portion of the housing separately from one or more other ones of the cooling modules in a same one of the first and second rows as the given one of the cooling modules; and a given one of the storage devices of the subset of storage devices thereby being removable from the chassis through the vertical plane of the front portion of the housing separately from one or more other ones of the storage devices.