Patent ID: 8041449

Claim:
A method comprising: performing one or more of first operations or second operations; wherein the first operations comprise: loading, by a first disk drive tote, multiple disk drives into a disk drive testing system; actuating an automated transporter to retrieve a first disk drive from the multiple disk drives in the first disk drive tote; actuating the automated transporter to deliver the first disk drive to a first test slot of the disk drive testing system; inserting the first disk drive in the first test slot; and unloading the first disk drive tote from the disk drive testing system; and wherein the second operations comprise: loading a second disk drive tote into the disk drive testing system; actuating the automated transporter to retrieve a second disk drive from a second test slot of the disk drive testing system; actuating the automated transporter to deliver the second disk drive to the second disk drive tote; and unloading, by the second disk drive tote, the second disk drive from the disk drive testing system.