Patent ID: 7505264
Filing Date: 2009-03-17
Classification: G06F,G11B

Abstract:
1. A method comprising: providing a drive enclosure holding a plurality of disk drives including a first, a second, a third, and a fourth drive in a first row of disk drives, wherein the first and second drives are at least as close to one another as they are to any other drives, the second and third drives are at least as close to one another as they are to any other drives, and the third and fourth drives are at least as close to one another as they are to any other drives, and wherein each disk drive includes an actuator; orienting the first drive and the second drive with their major faces substantially parallel to one another and such that the actuators are in a counter-rotating orientation to one another; and orienting the third drive and the fourth drive with their major faces substantially parallel to one another and such that the actuators are in a counter-rotating orientation to one another.