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US 7,913,025 · App. 12/175,496 · Granted Mar 22, 2011

Method and system for a storage device

Assignee: Augmentix Corporation
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Patent No.
US 7,913,025
App. No.
12/175,496
Filed
Jul 18, 2008
Granted
Mar 22, 2011
Kind
B1
Art Unit
2111
USPC
710/315
Abstract

Systems and methods for storage devices are presented. More specifically, in one embodiment a storage device may comprise an enclosure comprising an interface which may be coupled to an I/O bus of a computing system with which it is being utilized. Commands may be received through the interface and, invisibly to the computing system which issues the commands, translated into a set of commands configured to effectuate the received command in conjunction with one or more storage media coupled to the interface. These storage media may comprise different types of storage media such that data designated as critical may be stored on an appropriate storage media.

Claims (27)

1. A storage device, comprising:

an enclosure;

a first interface operable to interface with a first I/O bus of a computing device utilizing a first protocol;

a plurality of second I/O buses utilizing a second protocol, each of the one or more second I/O buses coupled to a corresponding storage media; and

a controller comprising one or more queues operable to store commands received through the first interface, a translator operable to configure a communication in the first protocol or the second protocol wherein the controller is operable to translate a first command received on the first I/O bus to one or more second commands configured to implement the first command in conjunction with the plurality of second I/O buses and corresponding storage media wherein the controller is operable to store data designated as critical on a first storage media of a first size coupled to a first one of the plurality of second I/O buses, store data not designated as critical by a user on a second storage media of a second size coupled to a second one the plurality of second I/O buses and the storage device appears as a single storage device of the combined first and second sizes to the computing device on the first I/O bus, wherein data is designated as critical by the user storing of the data in a first folder using the computing device and data is designated as not critical by the user storing the data in a second folder using the computing device.

2. The storage device of claim 1 , wherein each of the corresponding storage media are disk platters, solid state storage media or disk drives.

3. The storage device of claim 2 , wherein the first storage media is a solid state storage media.

4. The storage device of claim 3 , wherein an enclosure comprises the first interface, the one or more second I/O buses, the corresponding storage media and the controller.

5. The storage device of claim 4 , wherein the enclosure is an industry standard size.

6. The storage device of claim 4 , wherein the enclosure is a proprietary size.

7. The storage device of claim 3 , wherein the controller further comprise a map operable to map an address in commands received on the first I/O bus to one or more addresses corresponding to the one or more storage media coupled to the second I/O buses.

8. The storage device of claim 7 , wherein the controller is operable to determine if the address in commands received on the first I/O bus corresponds to data designated as critical.

9. The storage device of claim 3 , wherein the first I/O bus and the one or more second I/O buses are a SATA, PATA, SCSI, or FC bus.

10. The storage device of claim 3 , further comprising encryption logic operable to implement one or more encryption algorithms in conjunction with the one or more storage media.

11. A method for implementing a storage device, comprising

receiving a first command through a first interface operable to interface with a first I/O bus of a computing device utilizing a first protocol, wherein the storage device comprises a plurality of second I/O buses utilizing a second protocol, a first storage media of a first size coupled to a first one of the plurality of second I/O buses and a second storage media of a second size coupled to a second one the plurality of second I/O buses;

storing the first command in one or more queues operable to store commands received through the first interface;

translating the first command to one or more or more second commands operable to implement the first command utilizing a second protocol such that the storage device appears as a single storage device of the combined first and second sizes to the computing device on the first I/O bus, wherein if the first command corresponds to data designated as critical the one or more second command are operable to utilize the first storage media, if the first command corresponds to data not designated as critical by a user the one or more second commands are operable to utilize the second storage media of a second size coupled to a second one the plurality of second I/O buses and wherein data is designated as critical by the user storing of the data in a first folder using the computing device and data is designated as not critical by the user storing the data in a second folder using the computing device.

12. The method of claim 11 , wherein the first storage media and the second storage media are disk platters, solid state storage media or disk drives.

13. The method of claim 12 , wherein the first storage media is a solid state storage media.

14. The method of claim 13 , wherein the first interface is coupled to an enclosure comprising the first interface, the plurality of second I/O buses and the one or more storage media.

15. The method of claim 14 , wherein the enclosure is an industry standard size.

16. The method of claim 14 , wherein the enclosure is a proprietary size.

17. The method of claim 13 , further comprising mapping an address in commands received on the first I/O bus to one or more addresses corresponding to the first storage media coupled to the first one of the second I/O buses or the second storage media coupled to the second one of the second I/O buses.

18. The method of claim 17 , further comprising determining if the address in commands received on the first I/O bus corresponds to data designated as critical.

19. The method of claim 13 , wherein the first I/O bus and the plurality of second I/O buses are a SATA, PATA, SCSI, or FC bus.

20. The method of claim 13 , further comprising encrypting data in conjunction with the one or more storage media.

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Provisional Application 60961595 · Jul 23, 2007