Top-load HDD Server Movable Power Frame for Cable Access
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional high-capacity storage servers face challenges in cable management and maintenance due to lack of space after arranging multiple hard disks, leading to inconvenience and inefficiency.
Innovation Solution
A top-load HDD server design featuring a case with support and partition plates, a movable power supply frame, and strategically arranged heat dissipation fans, allowing for easy removal of the movable frame and heat dissipation fans to facilitate cable management and maintenance, while improving peripheral device installation and applicability.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Quantity of substance
If multiple hard disks are arranged in the server chassis to increase storage capacity, then storage capacity is improved, but space for cable management and maintenance is reduced
Solution Approach 1:
The server chassis is segmented into distinct functional zones using partition plates: a first accommodating space for hard disks, a second accommodating space for power supplies, and a third accommodating space for control boards. This segmentation organizes components to maximize storage capacity while preserving accessible spaces for cable management and maintenance operations.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent utilizes three-dimensional spatial arrangement by arranging components across multiple vertical levels and depth zones within the chassis. The partition plates create layered accommodating spaces that efficiently pack hard disks while maintaining rear-accessible zones for cable management, effectively using vertical and depth dimensions to resolve the space conflict.
2Quantity of substance
If multiple hard disks are arranged in the server chassis to increase storage capacity, then storage capacity is improved, but maintenance accessibility is reduced
Solution Approach 1:
The chassis is divided into separate accommodating spaces with the power supply and control board components positioned in rear-accessible zones. This segmentation allows maintenance personnel to access power and control components from the rear of the server without needing to remove or relocate the hard disk arrays, significantly improving maintenance accessibility while preserving high storage capacity.
Solution Approach 2:
The partition plates serve as intermediary structures that physically separate hard disk storage from power and control components. This intermediary arrangement creates dedicated maintenance access zones at the rear of the chassis, allowing service personnel to work on power supplies and control boards independently of the hard disk arrays.
3Temperature
If heat dissipation fans are added to improve cooling, then heat dissipation efficiency is improved, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent combines multiple heat dissipation fans into integrated cooling assemblies positioned within the existing accommodating spaces. Rather than adding separate complex cooling systems, the fans are merged with the partition plate structures and power supply housing, achieving effective heat dissipation for multiple components through a unified, space-efficient design that minimizes overall device complexity.
Data Source
AI summary
The present disclosure provides a top-load HDD server including: a partition plate arranged in a containing space of a case to divide the containing space into a plurality of hard disk chambers and a system chamber; a mother board arranged at a bottom of the system chamber; a power supply frame including a power control board and a power carrier; the power carrier includes a movable frame and a fixed frame, the movable frame is arranged on the power control board and removable, and thereby improves cable management and maintenance.