Patent ID: 8250266
Filing Date: 2012-08-21
Classification: H01R

Abstract:
1. A data storage device comprising: a data storage medium; a modified Serial Advanced Technology Attachment (SATA) connector having an L-shaped cross-section including a long leg and a short leg joined to form a corner, a first set of electrical contacts located on the L-shaped cross-section and a different second set of electrical contacts located on the L-shaped cross-section, the sets to selectively provide connectivity between the data storage medium and a host device in accordance with a SATA interconnect standard and an interconnect standard selected from the group consisting of an IEEE-1394 (Firewire) standard, a Fiber Channel (FC) standard, an Internet SCSI (iSCSI) standard, an External SATA (eSATA) standard, an Integrated Drive Electronics (IDE) standard, a Parallel Advanced Technology Attachment (PATA) standard, a Small Computer System Interface (SCSI) standard, a Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) standard, and an ultra ATA standard; an interconnect detector configured to determine the presence of a physical connection of the data storage device to the host device and to identify a detected interconnect standard of the physical connection as being one of the SATA interconnect standard and the selected interconnect standard; and a controller responsive to data access commands from the host device and responsive to the detected interconnect standard to transfer data between the data storage medium and the host device in accordance with the SATA interconnect standard via the first set of electrical contacts and to transfer the data between the data storage device and the host device in accordance with the selected interconnect standard via the second set of electrical contacts.