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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 09, 2016
Filed:
May. 07, 2014
Applicant:
Seagate Technology Llc, Cupertino, CA (US);
Inventors:
Michael Gene Morgan, Los Altos Hills, CA (US);
Felix Markhovsky, Saratoga, CA (US);
Cuong Tran, Milpitas, CA (US);
Assignee:
Seagate Technology LLC, Cupertino, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H01L 23/32 (2006.01); G06F 13/40 (2006.01); G06F 13/42 (2006.01); G06F 3/06 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 13/4068 (2013.01); G06F 3/061 (2013.01); G06F 3/067 (2013.01); G06F 3/0644 (2013.01); G06F 13/4221 (2013.01);
Abstract
Provided is an apparatus including a first storage device. The apparatus also includes an expansion slot configured to receive a removable card with a second storage device. The removable card with the second storage device is configured to provide faster read/write times to the second storage device than read/write times of the first storage device. The first and second storage devices are seen as a single storage device by a host computing device.