Patent ID: 7349204

Claim:
A disk device comprising: a chassis; disk drives arranged in height and depth directions in the chassis; wiring boards for the disk drives; and blowers for cooling the disk drives; wherein the disk drives are spaced each other with a predetermined distance and attached to the wiring boards so that a disk surface of rotation of each disk drive is perpendicular to a board surface of a wiring board, and wherein the disk device further comprises: drawer units which provide simultaneous extraction of the disk drives, the wiring boards and the blowers from the chassis; face-panel light emitting diodes (LEDs) provided in at least one-to-one correspondence to the disk drives, and viewable on a drawer unit face panel of a drawer unit while the drawer unit is fully-inserted into the chassis, each face-panel LED providing operational information with respect to the face-panel LED's corresponding disk drive; and, side-panel LEDs provided in at least one-to-one correspondence to the disk drives, and viewable on a drawer unit side panel of a drawer unit while the drawer unit is extracted outward from the chassis, each side-panel LED providing operational information with respect to the side-panel LED's corresponding disk drive.