WO2020232853A1

WO2020232853A1 - Storage server chassis

Info

Publication number: WO2020232853A1
Application number: PCT/CN2019/101767
Authority: WO
Inventors: 曹燚; 钟成; 王璐璐; 潘苏婉; 鲁艺; 王立平
Original assignee: 中国科学院深圳先进技术研究院
Priority date: 2019-05-21
Filing date: 2019-08-21
Publication date: 2020-11-26
Also published as: CN110032257A

Abstract

A storage server chassis, comprising: a body, the body comprising a bottom plate, a top plate, a front plate, a rear plate, a left side plate and a right side plate; a support plate located in the body and provided on the bottom plate, the support plate being configured to separate the body into a power supply placement area and a hard disk placement area along a left-right direction; and a support structure provided on an inner wall of the body and matched with the support plate. The support plate and the support structure are configured to support a motherboard tray above the hard disk placement area.

Description

Storage server chassis

This application claims the priority of the Chinese patent application whose application date is May 21, 2019 and the application number is 201910425928.7. The entire content of this application is incorporated into this application by reference.

Technical field

The present disclosure relates to the technical field of server chassis, for example, to a storage server chassis.

Background technique

Nework Attached Storage (NAS), as an enterprise product, has slowly penetrated into family life. However, there are not many options on the market for NAS enclosures, the price is high, and the design is not very reasonable. The NAS chassis in the technology adopts the design of the upper hard disk and the design of the lower motherboard, which has the problems of high center of gravity and large vibration and noise.

Summary of the invention

The present disclosure provides a storage server chassis, which can solve the technical problems of high center of gravity and large vibration and noise in the NAS chassis in related technologies.

A storage server chassis, comprising: a box body including a bottom plate, a top plate, a front panel, a rear panel, a left side panel, and a right side panel; a support plate located in the box body and arranged on the bottom plate , The supporting plate is arranged to divide the box into a power supply placement area and a hard disk placement area along the left and right directions; and a supporting structure provided on the inner wall of the box and matched with the supporting plate; wherein The supporting plate and the supporting structure are arranged to support the motherboard tray above the hard disk placement area.

Description of the drawings

FIG. 1 is a first structural diagram of a storage server chassis provided by an embodiment;

2 is a second structural diagram of a storage server chassis provided by an embodiment;

3 is a schematic structural diagram of the storage server chassis provided by an embodiment after removing the top plate and the rear panel;

4 is a schematic structural diagram of the storage server chassis provided by an embodiment after removing the top plate, the rear panel and the motherboard tray.

In the picture:

10- cabinet; 11- bottom plate; 111- auxiliary cooling hole; 12- top plate; 121- second fan mounting hole; 122- main board cooling hole; 13- front panel; 131- hard disk cooling hole; 132- power wiring port 133-Mainboard baffle mounting port; 134-Fixed slot; 14-rear panel; 141-first fan mounting hole; 142-first fan cooling hole; 15-left side plate; 151-slot; 16-right Board; 161-power cooling hole;

20-support board; 30-power supply placement area; 40-hard disk placement area; 41-partition board; 42-hard disk placement location; 50-mainboard tray; 51-raised board.

Detailed ways

In the description of this application, unless otherwise clearly specified and limited, the terms "connected", "connected", and "fixed" should be interpreted broadly. For example, they can be fixedly connected, detachably connected, or integrated. ; It can be a mechanical connection or an electrical connection; it can be directly connected or indirectly connected through an intermediate medium, and it can be the internal communication between two components or the interaction relationship between two components. For those of ordinary skill in the art, the specific meanings of the above terms in this application can be understood according to specific circumstances.

In the description of this embodiment, the terms "upper", "lower", "left", "right", and other orientations or positional relationships are based on the orientations or positional relationships shown in the drawings, and are only for ease of description and simplified operations , Rather than indicating or implying that the pointed device or element must have a specific orientation, be constructed and operated in a specific orientation, and therefore cannot be understood as a limitation of the application. In addition, the terms "first" and "second" are only used to distinguish them in description and have no special meaning.

As shown in Figures 1 to 4, this embodiment provides a storage server chassis. The storage server chassis includes a box body 10. The box body 10 includes a bottom plate 11, a top plate 12, a front panel 13, a rear panel 14, and a left side panel. 15 and the right side plate 16. In the box body 10, a support plate 20 is provided on the bottom plate 11 of the box body 10. The support plate 20 divides the box body 10 into a power supply storage area 30 and a hard disk storage area 40. In this embodiment , The power supply placement area 30 and the hard disk placement area 40 are distributed along the left and right directions of the box 10, the power supply and the hard disk are placed in the power placement area 30 and the hard disk placement area 40 respectively, and the inner wall of the box 10 is provided with a matching support plate 20 The supporting structure, the supporting plate 20 and the supporting structure support the motherboard tray 50 above the hard disk placement area 40, and the motherboard is arranged above the motherboard tray 50. The storage server chassis provided in this embodiment can place the hard disk on the bottom and the motherboard on the top, so that the center of gravity of the chassis is moved down, the structure is more stable, and the noise caused by chassis vibration is effectively reduced.

The bottom panel 11, the front panel 13, the left side panel 15 and the right side panel 16 are integrally formed frames, and the top panel 12 and the rear panel 14 are detachably connected to the frame. When assembling, first install the power supply, hard disk and main board on the frame, and then connect the rear panel 14 and the top board 12 to the frame in turn. Through the above settings, it is convenient to install the power supply, hard disk and motherboard. In one embodiment, the frame is provided with installation grooves corresponding to the top plate 12 and the rear panel 14, and the top plate 12 and the rear panel 14 are inserted into the corresponding installation grooves, which is very convenient for installation and removal.

The hard disk placement area 40 is provided with a plurality of partitions 41 at intervals. The partitions 41 divide the hard disk placement area 40 into a plurality of hard disk placement positions 42 in the left and right direction, and each hard disk placement position 42 can place a hard disk. In this embodiment, the number of partitions 41 is four, and the hard disk placement area 40 is divided into five hard disk placement positions 42. The five hard disk placement positions 42 adopt a "4+1" design, and four are set as placement positions. Hard disk placement 42 for 3.5-inch hard disks plus a hard disk placement 42 for 2.5-inch hard drives. In other embodiments, the number of partitions 41 and the size of the hard disk placed in each hard disk placement position 42 are not limited to this, and can be specifically set as required, and will not be repeated here. Wherein, the left-right direction refers to the left-right direction in FIG. 4, that is, the direction from the right side plate 16 to the left side plate 15.

The support structure includes a slot 151 extending along the front and rear direction of the box 10 and opened on the left side plate 15 of the box 10. The bottom wall of the slot 151 is flush with the top surface of the support plate 20, and the motherboard tray 50 can be pulled out It is in the slot 151 and supported by the top surface of the support plate 20. Or in other embodiments, the supporting structure may also be a convex corrugation extending in the front-rear direction provided on the inner wall of the box body 10. The top surface of the convex corrugation is flush with the top surface of the supporting board 20, and the main board tray 50 can be drawn on The top surface of the support plate 20 and the top surface of the corrugation are supported by the top surface of the support plate 20 and the top surface of the corrugation. In other embodiments, the support structure further includes a fixing groove 134 provided on the front panel 13 of the box 10 and extending along the left and right direction of the box 10, and the front end of the motherboard tray 50 can be inserted and fixed in the fixing groove 134. In addition, the rear end of the main board tray 50 is provided with two convex plates 51 at intervals. On the one hand, the two convex plates 51 can abut the rear panel 14 to make the main board tray 50 more stable. On the other hand, two convex plates 51 The gap between the lifting plates 51 is convenient for wiring. Wherein, the front-rear direction is a direction perpendicular to the front panel 13 and parallel to the left side panel 15.

The rear panel 14 of the box body 10 is provided with a first fan mounting hole 141 and a first fan radiating hole 142. The first cooling fan is installed on the rear panel 14 through the first fan mounting hole 141 on the right side plate 16 of the box body 10. A power radiating hole 161 facing the power placement area 30 is provided, a hard disk radiating hole 131 facing the hard disk placement area 40 is provided on the front panel 13 of the cabinet 10, and a main board facing the motherboard is provided on the top plate 12 of the cabinet 10 Heat dissipation holes 122. The first cooling fan can draw cold air through the power supply cooling holes 161, the hard drive cooling holes 131, and the motherboard cooling holes 122, and discharge the cold air from the first fan cooling holes 142. Heat dissipation, and the heat dissipation efficiency of the power supply, the hard disk, and the motherboard can be improved by providing the power dissipation hole 161, the hard disk dissipation hole 131, and the mainboard dissipation hole 122. In one embodiment, the bottom plate 11 of the cabinet 10 is provided with auxiliary heat dissipation holes 111, which can further improve the heat dissipation efficiency of the cabinet.

In one embodiment, a second fan mounting hole 121 is provided on the top plate 12 of the box body 10, and the second fan mounting hole 121 is configured to install a second cooling fan. Generally, the first cooling fan can meet the requirements of the chassis. Heat dissipation requirements, but when the motherboard used is a high-energy-consumption motherboard, a second cooling fan can be installed through the second fan mounting hole 121. At this time, the motherboard cooling hole 122 is the second fan cooling hole, and the second cooling fan performs the main For heat dissipation, the first heat dissipation fan assists the second heat dissipation fan to efficiently dissipate heat from the motherboard, so as to better meet the heat dissipation requirements of the chassis.

In addition, the front panel 13 of the cabinet 10 is provided with a power wiring port 132 and a motherboard baffle mounting port 133. The power wiring port 132 is a reserved port for the power cord, and the motherboard baffle mounting port 133 is set to install the motherboard baffle. .

The case provided in this embodiment is formed by 3D printing technology, has a low cost, and has a volume of only 6L-8L, and is compact and very light. In other embodiments, the molding method of the chassis is not limited to 3D printing, and may also be molded by any other suitable processing method, which will not be listed here.

Claims

A storage server chassis, which includes:

A box body (10), the box body (10) comprising a bottom plate (11), a top plate (12), a front panel (13), a rear panel (14), a left side panel (15) and a right side panel (16);

A support plate (20) located in the box (10) and arranged on the bottom plate (11), the support plate (20) is arranged to divide the box (10) into a power source along the left and right directions Placement area (30) and hard drive placement area (40); and

A supporting structure arranged on the inner wall of the box body (10) and matched with the supporting plate (20);

Wherein, the supporting plate (20) and the supporting structure are arranged to support the motherboard tray (50) above the hard disk placement area (40).
The storage server chassis according to claim 1, wherein a power dissipation hole (161) is provided on the right side panel (16) near the power supply placement area (30), and a hard disk is provided on the front panel (13) A heat dissipation hole (131) is provided on the top plate (12) with a main board heat dissipation hole (122).
The storage server chassis according to claim 2, wherein the bottom plate (11) is provided with auxiliary heat dissipation holes (111).
3. The storage server chassis of claim 2, wherein the storage server chassis adopts at least one of the following settings:

A first fan mounting hole (141) is provided on the rear panel (14); and

The top plate (12) is provided with a second fan mounting hole (121).
The storage server chassis according to claim 1, further comprising a plurality of partitions (41) arranged in the hard disk placement area (40) and spaced along the left and right directions of the box (10), the A plurality of partitions (41) are arranged to divide the hard disk placement area (40) into a plurality of hard disk placement positions (42).
The storage server chassis according to claim 1, wherein the supporting structure comprises a slot extending along the front and rear direction of the cabinet (10) opened on the left side plate (15) close to the hard disk placement area (40) (151), the bottom wall of the slot (151) is flush with the top surface of the support plate (20), the motherboard tray (50) can be drawn into the slot (151), and The top surface of the supporting plate (20) and the slot (151) are supported.
The storage server chassis according to claim 6, wherein the supporting structure further comprises a fixing slot (134) arranged on the front panel (13) and extending along the left and right directions of the box body (10), The front end of the main board tray (50) is arranged to be inserted and fixed in the fixing groove (134).
The storage server chassis according to claim 1, wherein the front panel (13) is provided with a power routing port (132) and a motherboard baffle mounting port (133), and the motherboard baffle is configured to be installed on the motherboard Baffle mounting port (133).
The storage server chassis according to claim 1, wherein the bottom panel (11), the front panel (13), the left side panel (15) and the right side panel (16) are integrally formed frames, and the top panel (12) ) And the rear panel (14) and the frame are detachably connected.
The storage server chassis according to claim 9, wherein the frame is provided with mounting slots corresponding to the top plate (12) and the rear panel (14), the top plate (12) and the rear panel (14) Insert into the corresponding installation slot.