Patent ID: 8009385

Claim:
A method of operating a data storage unit wherein the data storage unit comprises a cover that defines, at least in part, an interior space, the method comprising: receiving a first data package from a host; storing the first data package on at least one of a plurality of disk drives associated with a first media blade, the disk drives possessing disks that rotate when operable; moving the first media blade in a drawer like motion, via an accommodating opening in the cover, from between a first position, that is substantially within the interior space, and a second position, that is less than substantially within the interior space, while the storing step is being performed and without interrupting the storing step; the first media blade possessing a mid-plane frame with a first side and a second side wherein any of the disk drives associated with the first side are arranged such that the disks rotate in an opposite direction as the disks associated with any of the disk drives associated with the second side.