Patent ID: 8369079

Claim:
A carrier for a disk drive for inserting the disk drive into a bay of a storage enclosure, the carrier comprising: a housing for housing said disk drive; a latch member slidably attached to the housing, the latch member having at least one latch part for engaging with a corresponding engagement part of said bay to latch the carrier into position when the latch member is slid in a latch direction to a latch position, wherein the latch member has at least two latch parts, the carrier has two opposed ends, and the two latch parts being disposed respectively at the opposed ends, wherein the latch parts are fixed in position relative to each other such that movement of the latch member moves both latch parts in the same direction; wherein the latch member lies adjacent to a side of the disk drive when a disk drive is received in the carrier and does not extend beyond the envelope of the disk drive by more than 5 mm in any direction perpendicular to the axis along which the latch member moves.