The Silent Brick Air / Silent Brick Plus / Silent Brick FLASH

Overview of Compatibility

The Silent Brick is the hard drive container of the Silent Brick Library. A Silent Brick contains twelve slots (3) for the hard drives (4). The slots are enclosed by the Brick housing (2).

At the front of the Brick, there is a handle (1) to push the Brick into the Controller/Shelf or to pull the Brick out of the Controller/Shelf.

On the front side of the handle, there is an ePaper display (5) at the top that serves as an electronic label.

The ePaper display includes the following components:

• A QR code that contains information about the Brick,

• the barcode of a VTL formatted Brick,

• the volume name of an SNAS formatted Brick,

• the archive name of a Brick used as a Compliant Archive,

• the used storage capacity of the Brick,

• the free storage capacity of the Brick.

Below the ePaper display is a touch sensor (6) labeled 'Silent Brick.' This touch sensor can be used to activate the automatic ejection of the Brick. The ejection ensures that the Brick is pushed out a bit from the Controller/Shelf to expose the handle of the Brick.

Below the touchscreen is an LED (7) that can be activated via the configuration interface of the Silent Brick Library to locate the Brick in the server cabinet.

On the back of the Brick, there is a locking lever (8) that can be used to release the Brick from its housing.

Below the locking lever is the electronic connection (9) of the Brick, which is responsible for the connection between the Brick and the Controller/Shelf.

Fig.: Brick Overview

Fig.: Brick Back