Title:
PORTABLE RAID DEVICE
Document Type and Number:
WIPO Patent Application WO2005070152
Kind Code:
A3
Abstract:
A portable RAID device (100) has four hard disk drives (102a-102d) and a RAID controller (104) within an enclosure (106). The RAID controller (104) controls the RAID array according to at least RAID level 5. The portable RAID device (100) has an input/output port (335, 340) configured to connect the portable RAID device (100) to a computer, such that the portable RAID device (100) provides reliable, RAID-compliant external storage that may be moved from computer to computer. Input/output connectors on each hard disk drive face inward toward the middle (124) of the enclosure along one dimension. The four hard disk drives (102a-102d) are arranged in a compact 2 by 2 pattern. The space efficient layout of the portable RAID device (100) allows the device to house a four hard disk drive RAID array within a rectangular enclosure (106) with roughly the same dimensions as a laptop computer.
Inventors:
CHEN WINSTON (US)
Application Number:
PCT/US2005/000850
Publication Date:
November 17, 2005
Filing Date:
January 11, 2005
Export Citation:
Assignee:
RYVOR CORP (US)
CHEN WINSTON (US)
CHEN WINSTON (US)
International Classes:
G06F1/16; G11B33/12; G11B25/04; (IPC1-7): G06F1/16
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