Storage array including a bridge module interconnect to provide bridge connections to different protocol bridge protocol modules

A storage array comprising:

• a motherboard comprising:
• a first compute module;
• an input/output (I/O) mid-plane routed to the first compute module, the I/O mid-plane having a plurality of peripheral component interconnect express (PCIe) lanes coupled to the first compute module;
• a bridge module interconnect routed to the I/O mid-plane via one or more of the plurality of PCIe lanes of the I/O mid-plane, the bridge module interconnect providing bridge connections to receive two or more types of protocol bridge modules, wherein the two or more types of protocol bridge modules are selected from a serial attached SCSI (SAS) protocol bridge module and a non-volatile memory express (NVME) protocol bridge module;
• a storage mid-plane providing integrated routing between each of a plurality of drive connectors and each of the bridge connections of the bridge module interconnect and
• a bridge board module that provides a passive interface to a predefined set of the plurality of drive connectors for interconnection to a predefined set of NVME storage drives.

A storage array, comprising,

• a motherboard comprising:
• a first compute module;
• a second compute module, the first compute module provided for a first controller, and the second compute module provided for a second controller, wherein the first and second controllers provide failover compute processing for the storage array;
• an input/output (I/O) mid-plane routed to the first compute module and the second compute module, the I/O mid-plane having a plurality of peripheral component interconnect express (PCIe) lanes coupled to the first and second compute modules;
• a bridge module interconnect routed to the I/O mid-plane via the plurality of PCIe lanes of the I/O mid-plane, the bridge module interconnect providing bridge connections to receive two or more types of protocol bridge modules, wherein the two or more types of protocol bridge modules are selected from a serial attached SCSI (SAS) protocol bridge module and a non-volatile memory express (NVME) protocol bridge module;
• and
• a storage mid-plane providing integrated routing between each of a plurality of drive connectors and each of the bridge connections of the bridge module interconnect.