Patent ID: 7555582

Claim:
A portable memory device, comprising: a casing having a form factor; a flash-based hard drive in the casing; a serial data bus in the casing and coupled to the hard drive, wherein the serial data bus is configured to read data from and write data to the hard drive; and a connector coupled to the serial data bus and having a plurality of pins configured to transfer signals to and from the memory device, and wherein the pins are configured to interface with a fifty pin socket of a host device, wherein the fifty pin socket includes pin locations 1 through 50 arranged in a pattern corresponding to a standard socket configuration; and the connector includes two power lines, seven ground lines, a first data line, a second data line, a reset line, a write protect line, a card detect line, and a status line, and wherein the connector does not include pins corresponding to the remaining pin locations of the fifty pin socket.