Patent ID: 7088579

Claim:
A combination of a multiple disk drive storage apparatus and a plurality of removable disk drive modules, the disk drive storage apparatus includes a housing having an opening in a front side that is further divided into a plurality of slots and a motherboard disposed within the housing, each of the disk drive modules is received in one of the slots of the housing, wherein each of the disk drive modules comprises: a disk drive having a first connector that is received by a second connector of the motherboard when the disk drive module is placed in the slot; a carrier body with a front portion and a rear portion, the front portion being disposed in the opening in the front side of the housing and the rear portion being disposed within the housing when the disk drive module is placed in one of the slots, a latch integrally formed on the carrier body that engages the housing and is accessible from the front side of the housing, the carrier body having an integrally formed ejection spring that engages a member disposed within the housing; and wherein the disk drive module may be removed by disengaging the latch from the housing, the ejection spring exerting a biasing force on the member disconnecting the first connector from the second connector and urging the disk drive module out of the housing through the opening in the front side of the housing.