Patent ID: 7917683

Claim:
A device, comprising: a first interface operable to interface with a first I/O bus of a computing device utilizing a first protocol; a second interface operable to interface with a plurality of second I/O buses utilizing a second protocol; a controller comprising one or more queues operable to store commands received on the first I/O bus in a first protocol associated with the first bus and a translator operable to configure a communication in the first protocol or the second protocol 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 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.