Direct-mount acoustics damping shelf at backplane-identified devices

A method comprising:

• removably coupling an acoustically absorbent material to a shelf, wherein the acoustically absorbent material is formed into a honeycomb pattern;
• and
• coupling the shelf to a second side of a backplane of an information handling system, wherein the backplane is configured to couple at a first side thereof to a plurality of physical storage resources, such that the shelf is disposed between the first side of the backplane and an air mover of the information handling system;
• wherein the backplane includes a plurality of drive bays each configured to receive one or more of the plurality of physical storage resources, wherein a first drive bay includes hard drives received therein and a second drive bay includes solid state drives received therein, and wherein the shelf is coupled to the backplane at a position corresponding to the first drive bay and no shelf is coupled to the backplane at a position corresponding to the second drive bay.

An apparatus comprising:

• a shelf;
• and
• an acoustically absorbent material coupled to the shelf, wherein the acoustically absorbent material is formed into a honeycomb pattern;
• wherein the shelf is configured to be removably coupled to a second side of a backplane of an information handling system, wherein the backplane is configured to couple at a first side thereof to a plurality of physical storage resources, such that the shelf is configured to be disposed between the first side of the backplane and an air mover of the information handling system;
• wherein the backplane includes a plurality of drive bays each configured to receive one or more of the plurality of physical storage resources, wherein a first drive bay includes hard drives received therein and a second drive bay includes solid state drives received therein, and wherein the shelf is coupled to the backplane at a position corresponding to the first drive bay and no shelf is coupled to the backplane at a position corresponding to the second drive bay.