Patent ID: 6230217
Filing Date: 2001-05-08
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
A data storage system wherein a host computer is coupled to a bank of disk drives through a system interface, such interface having a plurality of directors and a memory in communication with the directors through a plurality of busses for controlling data transfer between the host computer and the bank of disk drives as such data passes through the memory, a front-end portion of the directors being coupled to the host computer and rear-end portion of the directors having input/output interfaces coupled to disk drive bank, the system interface comprising:a printed circuit board having:a plurality of electrical connectors electrically connected to the busses, such electrical connectors being adapted to receive the rear-end directors;wherein the bank of disk drives has a plurality of sets of electrically connected disk drives, each one of the sets being connected to a corresponding one of the input/output interfaces of a corresponding one of the rear-end directors and, through the printed circuit board, to the input/output interface of another one of the rear-end directors.