Patent ID: 8320118

Claim:
A mounting apparatus for a disk drive, the mounting apparatus comprising: a first frame; a second frame opposite to the first frame, for sandwiching the disk drive in cooperation with the first frame; and at least two resilient members connected between the first and second frames, respectively positioned on opposite side surfaces of the disk drive, thereby biasing the first and second frames to firmly sandwich the disk drive; wherein two first locking holes are defined in the first frame, two second locking holes are defined in the second frame corresponding to the first locking holes of the first frame, each of the at least two resilient members comprises two hooks respectively locked in one of the first locking holes of the first frame and a corresponding one of the second locking holes of the second frame; wherein each of the first and second frames comprises a base panel and opposite first and second side panels substantially perpendicularly extending from opposite sides of the base panel, the base panel resisting against a corresponding lateral surface of the disk drive and the first and second side panels resisting against the side surfaces of the disk drive, in response to the disk drive mounted between the first and second frames; and wherein two first limiting tabs are respectively formed on opposite ends of the base panel of each of the first and second frames, the first and second side panels and the first limiting tabs of each of the first and second frames bound a holding chamber for holding a corresponding side of the disk drive.