Drive carrier

FIG. 1 is a right front perspective view of a first embodiment of a drive carrier showing our new design.

FIG. 2 is a front view thereof.

FIG. 3 is a right side view thereof.

FIG. 4 is a left side view thereof.

FIG. 5 is a top view thereof.

FIG. 6 is a detail front perspective view of portion 6 in FIG. 1 .

FIG. 7 is a right front perspective view of a second embodiment of a drive carrier showing our new design.

FIG. 8 is a front view thereof.

FIG. 9 is a right side view thereof.

FIG. 10 is a left side view thereof.

FIG. 11 is a top view thereof.

FIG. 12 is a bottom view thereof; and,

FIG. 13 is a detail front perspective view of portion 13 in FIG. 7 .

In the first embodiment, a bottom view of the design is identical to the top view and thus the bottom view is omitted. Moreover, in both embodiments the design cannot be seen in a rear view and thus rear views are omitted.

The portions of the figures depicted in dashed lines are not part of the claimed design. The dash-dotted lines in FIGS. 4 , 7 , 9 - 11 , and 13 indicate an unclaimed boundary of the depicted design, are not part of the claimed design, and do not correspond to or depict any particular feature of the claimed design.

The design is part of a drive carrier, which is a device that can carry a drive (e.g., a solid-state drive, a hard disk drive, or other drives) that can be mounted thereto. A drive carrier with a drive carried thereby may be used, for example, in a computing system (e.g., a server, a high-performance-compute system, a data storage appliance, a converged or hyperconverged system, or other computing systems) to facilitate installation and uninstallation (e.g., hot-swapping) of the drive to the computing system. In the Figures, the design is shown as part of a drive carrier for carrying an Enterprise & Data Center Standard Form Factor (EDSFF) drive. An EDSFF drive is a drive that has a form factor specified in one of the standards in the EDSFF family of standards, such as a form factor specified in SFF-TA-1006, SFF-TA-1007, or SFF-TA-1008. However, the design is not limited solely to a drive carrier for carrying EDSFF drives and could be used with other types of drives.