Systems and devices for low-vibration cooling of storage drives
AssigneeFacebook, Inc.
InventorsJason David Adrian, Austin Joel Cousineau
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Abstract
A disclosed apparatus may include a storage drawer chassis having thermally-conductive barriers, with the thermally-conductive barriers defining storage bays adapted to receive storage drives. The apparatus may further include a coolant manifold, an inlet mechanism adapted to receive coolant into the coolant manifold of the storage drawer chassis, and an outlet mechanism adapted to permit coolant to exit the storage drawer chassis for thermal processing. The coolant manifold may be disposed in the storage drawer chassis to distribute coolant among a plurality of coolant channels extending within the thermally-conductive barriers to cool the storage drives. Other related systems, devices and methods are disclosed.
Claims20
An apparatus comprising:
- a storage drawer chassis comprising thermally-conductive barriers, pairs of the thermally-conductive barriers defining storage bays adapted to receive one or more storage drives;
- a coolant manifold, disposed in a back end of the storage drawer chassis, that distributes coolant among a plurality of coolant channels extending within the thermally-conductive barriers to cool the one or more storage drives;
- an inlet mechanism adapted to receive coolant into the coolant manifold of the storage drawer chassis;
- an outlet mechanism adapted to permit coolant to exit the storage drawer chassis for thermal processing;
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- one or more hard-disk-based storage drives inserted into one or more slots defined within the storage bays, wherein:
- at least one of the hard-disk-based storage drives comprises a heat exchanger.
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A storage media heat-mitigation system comprising:
- a rack chassis configured to receive a plurality of storage drawer chasses;
- at least one storage drawer chassis removably inserted into the rack chassis, the storage drawer chassis comprising:
- a plurality of thermally-conductive barriers defining storage bays adapted to receive one or more storage drives;
- at least one coolant channel extending along at least one thermally-conductive barrier of the plurality of thermally-conductive barriers;
- an inlet mechanism adapted to receive coolant into the coolant channel of the storage drawer chassis;
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- an outlet mechanism adapted to permit coolant to exit the storage drawer chassis for processing;
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- a coolant processing unit coupled to the inlet mechanism and outlet mechanism of the storage drawer chassis to process the coolant, at least in part, by circulating the coolant through the coolant channel.
An apparatus comprising:
- a hard disk for storing data;
- a storage drive housing for housing the hard disk, the storage drive housing comprising a top side and a bottom side disposed opposite the top side, the top side and bottom side extending substantially parallel to the hard disk, and a sidewall portion extending between the top side and the bottom side;
- a controller that controls reading and writing to the hard disk;
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- a heat exchanger that comprises a heat pipe extending longitudinally within the storage drive housing such that the heat pipe is positioned proximate the sidewall portion of the storage drive housing to enable transmission of heat through the sidewall portion.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.