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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 23, 2005
Filed:
Jun. 26, 2002
Jeffrey Teachout, Upton, MA (US);
Brian Gallagher, Southborough, MA (US);
Kendell A. Chilton, Southborough, MA (US);
Natan Vishlitzky, Brookline, MA (US);
Jeffrey Teachout, Upton, MA (US);
Brian Gallagher, Southborough, MA (US);
Kendell A. Chilton, Southborough, MA (US);
Natan Vishlitzky, Brookline, MA (US);
Other;
Abstract
A cabinet having a plurality of rack mountable chassis. One portion of such chassis has directors and electrically interconnected memory and another portion of such chassis having a plurality of disk drives. The plurality of chassis are electrically interconnected to provide a data storage system interface. The another portion of the cabinets includes therein a printed circuit board having plugged into a surface thereof a plurality of disk drives. The cabinet includes a plurality of rack mountable chassis. A first one of such chassis has a memory and a plurality of directors for controlling data transfer between a host computer/server and a bank of disk drives as such data passes through the memory. A first plurality of the directors are for coupling to the host computer/server. A second plurality of the directors are for coupling to a bank of disk drives. A second one of such chassis has a plurality of disk drives, such disk drives being plugged into a surface of a printed circuit board. Electrical conductors are provided for connecting the disk drives in the second chassis to the second plurality of directors in the first chassis.