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

Compatibility overview

The Silent Brick is the hard disk container of the Silent Brick Library. A Silent Brick contains twelve slots (3) for hard disks (4). The slots are enclosed by the Brick enclosure (2).

At the front of the Brick, there is a handle (1) to insert the Brick into the controller/shelf or to remove it from the controller/shelf.

On the front side of the handle, in the upper area, there is an ePaper Display (5) that serves as an electronic label.

The ePaper Display comprises the following components:

• A QR code containing 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 available storage capacity of the Brick.

Below the ePaper Display is a touch sensor (6) labeled “Silent Brick.” This touch sensor enables activation of the automatic ejection of the Brick. The ejection causes the Brick to be pushed out slightly 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 within the server cabinet.

On the back of the Brick is a locking lever (8) used to release the Brick from its housing.

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

Fig.: Brick Overview

Fig.: Rear Side of the Brick