Seagate Technology Incorporated

Paul Mcparland

Bruno Jean Masson

Jeffrey Dale Fochtman

Timothy Bucher

Michael Gene Morgan

Pierre Le Bars

A data storage ecosystem that includes a series of devices of increasing size, designed to look and work together as a family, with at least one of the devices being a data storage device having a first consumer-accessible connector and a second high speed connector. The data storage ecosystem also includes a rack-mounted docking unit having a third high speed interfacing connector configured to couple to the second high speed connector of the data storage device when the data storage device is inserted into the rack-mounted docking unit.

Modular edge storage devices with high speed interconnects

A data storage system can employ one or more data storage modules that each have multiple constituent data storage devices. A plurality of data storage devices can be connected to a control board within a single housing with the control board having a number of SATA outputs connected to each of the plurality of data storage devices. The number of SATA outputs may be less than a total number of data storage devices in the plurality of data storage devices. Each SATA output can be connected to a separate first-tier port multiplier that has circuitry to split a single set of SATA signals into multiple duplicate sets of SATA signals.

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San Jose, CA, United States of America

Paul Mcparland