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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 27, 2022
Filed:
May. 07, 2019
Microsoft Technology Licensing, Llc, Redmond, WA (US);
Sebastien Charles, Morgan Hill, CA (US);
Astolfo Rueda, Bainbridge Island, WA (US);
Tamer Sherif Mahmoud Abdelaziz, San Jose, CA (US);
Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
The disclosed technology includes a storage system with a docking station configured to serve as an interface between a host computer and a portable data pack including multiple storage drives. The docking station includes a drive-side connection interface that provides a physical and electrical coupling to each of the multiple storage drives in the portable data pack, a RAID controller, and mode selection logic for directing communications in route between the host computer and a select drive of the multiple storage drives along one of two selectable paths within the docking station, the first path permitting the host computer to interact with the select drive through the RAID controller and the second path permitting the host computer to interact with the select drive along a data channel that bypasses the RAID controller.