PARTIAL-WIDTH RACK-MOUNTED COMPUTING DEVICES

摘要

A computing system includes a rack having standard slots for computing devices and computing devices coupled to the rack. One or more of the computing devices includes a chassis, a circuit board assembly in a primarily horizontal orientation, and one or more processors coupled to the circuit board assembly. One or more stacks of hard disk drives are coupled to the chassis. The chassis has a width that is equal to or less than half of the width of one of the standard slots of the rack.

主权项

1. A computing system, comprising:
a rack comprising one or more standard slots for computing devices; two or more half-width computing devices coupled to the rack, each of at least two of the half-width computing devices having a height that is greater than 1 rack unit and less than 2 rack units, and comprising:
a half-width chassis, wherein the half-width computing device is separately removable on the half-width chassis from other computing devices in the rack;one or more circuit board assemblies in a primarily horizontal orientation coupled to the chassis;one or more processors coupled to at least one of the circuit board assemblies; andone or more stacks of two or more hard disk drives coupled to the chassis;wherein the at least two half-width computing devices are arranged vertically one over another in a ratio of 2 half-width computing devices per 3 rack-units of vertical rack space .