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US 2004/0177219 A1Published application
Method and apparatus for mechanically and electrically mounting a plurality of small form factor storage devices in place of a single larger form factor hard disk drive
AssigneeDisk Dynamix
InventorsThomas F. Meehan, Raymond A. Bahar, Rajendra Bhadra, Patrick Weiher
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Abstract
A method and apparatus for mechanically mounting and electrically connecting a plurality of small form factor (SFF) storage devices such as 2.5″ hard disk drives in place of a larger SFF hard disk drive such as a single SFF 3.5″ hard disk drive. This provides increased disk drive capacity and/or higher performance. The storage devices may be connected in a redundant array of independent disk (RAID) architecture for implementation as a RAID stripe, mirror, or other RAID configuration.
Claims13
An apparatus, comprising:
- a printed circuit board;
- a plurality of storage devices each dimensioned of a first form factor;
- a plurality of connectors coupled to the plurality of storage devices and said printed circuit board to electrically coupled said plurality of storage devices to said printed circuit board;
- and
- a mounting apparatus mechanically coupled to the plurality of storage devices, said mounting apparatus dimensioned to a disk drive of a second form factor that is of a larger dimension than the first form factor.
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A data storage apparatus, comprising:
- a printed circuit board including a RAID controller and a connector;
- a plurality of storage devices each dimensioned of a first form factor;
- a plurality of connectors coupled to the plurality of storage devices and said printed circuit board to electrically coupled said plurality of storage devices to said printed circuit board;
- and
- a mounting apparatus mechanically coupled to the plurality of storage devices, said mounting apparatus dimensioned to a disk drive of a second form factor that is of a larger dimension than the first form factor.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.