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US 11,310,933 B2Granted
Storage device
AssigneeHitachi, Ltd.
InventorsHibiki Suzuki, Yuichi Saigan, Tatsuhiko Fukazawa
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Abstract
A storage device includes a casing; a drive that records data; a controller that controls a data processing of the drive; and a midplane that connects the drive to the controller, in which the midplane includes a plurality of split midplanes which are replaceable, a drive side connector is disposed on a drive side of the split midplane, and the drive side connector is connected to the drive.
Claims10
A storage device comprising:
- a casing;
- a plurality of drives that record data;
- at least one controller that controls data processing of the plurality of drives;
- and
- a midplane that connects the plurality of drives to the at least one controller,
- wherein the midplane is disposed substantially perpendicular to a bottom surface of the casing, includes a guide midplane formed of an upper portion and two end portions in a horizontal direction parallel to the bottom surface of the casing, and includes a plurality of split midplanes which are replaceable and are positioned between the two end portions of the guide midplane,
- wherein a plurality of drive side connectors are disposed on a drive side of the split midplanes and the two end portions of the guide midplane, wherein the drive side connectors of the split midplanes are between the drive side connectors of the guide midplane, and each of the drive side connectors is connected to one of the drives, respectively, and
- wherein a plurality of controller side connectors are disposed on a controller side of the split midplanes and connected to the at least one controller, and each of the controller side connectors is connected to the at least one controller.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.