Patent ID: 6246574
Filing Date: 2001-06-12
Classification: G11B

Abstract:
An assembly for a building block system, said assembly comprising a first section having a first disk drive and a second section having a second disk drive, each section having a standard front width and a standard front height, said sections having a common front panel having a front height at least equal to a standard front height of the sections and a front width at least equal to a standard front width of the section, said front panel having a plug-type connector for each of the disk drives in the second section, a common carrier plate extending vertically from the front panel and a connector line for each of the disk drives, each disk drive having aback side with a connector, said disk drives being mounted flat and offset relative to one another on the vertically-arranged common carrier plate with an offset being in the direction of the depth of the assembly and the back sides facing in opposite directions with the first disk drive being adjacent the front panel and the second disk drive having the back side facing the front panel and being spaced therefrom to form a space for the connector lines, said connector lines outgoing from the connectors on the back sides of the disk drives in opposite directions and extending in said space to extend to the connectors on said front panel.