Patent ID: 8687356

Claim:
A method of regulating the temperature of a storage device received in a storage device testing system, the method comprising: drawing, by a test slot air mover from a common air reservoir, a flow of air into an entrance of a test slot housing of a test slot received in a rack that houses a plurality of test slots, wherein air from the common air reservoir is drawn into at least two of the test slots; wherein the test slot housing comprises the entrance and an exit, the entrance configured to receive the storage device, and at least one of the entrance and the exit configured for pneumatic communication with an air heat exchanger; and wherein the air heat exchanger is configured for pneumatic communication with the rack; and moving, by the test slot air mover, (i) the flow of air that is drawn from the common air reservoir over the storage device received in the test slot, (ii) the flow of air that is drawn from the common air reservoir out the exit of the test slot housing of the test slot, and (iii) the flow of air that is drawn from the common air reservoir through the air heat exchanger at least one of before and after passing over the storage device received in the entrance of the test slot housing.