Patent ID: 8111514
Filing Date: 2012-02-07
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A hot pluggable module for organizing multiple hard drives in a computer, comprising: a plurality of hard drives; a sleeve with a plurality of rail slots in the side of the sleeve; at least one slide rail that is attached to the side of each hard drive, where the slide rail is inserted into a rail slot of the sleeve so that the slide rail is exposed externally to the sleeve and is in contact with a thermally conductive elastomeric coupler; a hard drive receptacle that is mounted in the computer, where the receptacle includes guide slots that mate with the exposed slide rails of the hard drives; a heat sink mounted on the receptacle that receives heat transferred from the plurality of hard drives through the thermally conductive elastomeric coupler; and a backplane located in rear of the hard drive receptacle, where the backplane attaches the module to the computer.