Patent ID: 8787012

Claim:
A system comprising: a chassis for retaining components of a computing system, including a hard disk drive; a hard disk drive housing configured to encase one or more hard disk drives, wherein the housing has a pair of pins located on the exterior of the housing and at least one opening; a pair of tabs fixed to the chassis, each tab including a slot that is configured to receive a pin of the pair of pins of the housing, the slot in each tab including a slit-like opening for allowing expansion of the slot to fit a diameter of one of the pins to provide an interference fit between the slot and the pin; and a member resiliently fixed to the chassis, wherein the member is configured to fit within the at least one opening of the housing and capable of deforming to be removed from the at least one opening of the housing, wherein the tabs and the member are located on the chassis so that the pins of the housing can be aligned with and coupled to the slots of the tabs while the member is aligned with and coupled to the at least one opening in the housing to secure the housing to the chassis.