Flush faced servers

A method comprising:

• providing a media drive tray in a media drive bay of a server unit, the media drive tray configured with a handle rotatable in a first direction about a hinge to rotate a locking tab of the handle into a socket of the media drive bay of the server unit and rotatable in a second direction about the hinge to contact a hinge end of the handle with a recessed, front facing surface of the media drive bay of the server unit;
• drawing air through air flow passages in a front side of the handle of the media drive tray to cool a media drive seated in the media drive tray and locked in the media drive bay of the server unit by the locking tab;
• and
• drawing air through air flow passages in a front side of the server unit wherein the front side of the handle and the front side of the server unit align.

An assembly comprising:

• a server disposed in a server chassis wherein the server comprises one or more processors configured to execute instructions for communication with one or more media drives;
• and
• media drives seated in respective media drive trays disposed in respective media drive bays of the server chassis, wherein each of the media drive bays comprises a side wall, wherein each of the side walls comprises
• a front facing surface recessed from a front side of the server chassis, the front facing surface configured to support force exerted by rotation of a hinge end of a handle of one of the media drive trays to extract the media drive tray from a respective one of the media drive bays and
• a stop configured to receive a locking tab extending from a hinge end of a handle of the one of the media drive trays to lock the media drive tray in the respective one of the media drive bays.