Patent ID: 7209999

Claim:
An expansion device for storage units, for use with a blade server, the expansion device comprising: a first interface connected with a data transmitting interface disposed in the blade server, wherein the first interface is provided with a transmitting standard compatible with that of the data transmitting interface of the blade server, at least one second interface connected with a data transmitting interface disposed in at least one storage unit, wherein the second interface is provided with a transmitting standard compatible with that of the data transmitting interface of the storage unit; a transmitting unit for providing data communication between the blade server connected to the first interface and the storage unit connected to the second interface, the transmitting unit being preset with a circuit infrastructure corresponding to at least one transmitting standard of storage units, wherein if the transmitting unit corresponds to two or more transmitting standards, a single public circuit infrastructure is employed in compatible parts of the transmitting standards, and specific circuit infrastructures are employed in incompatible parts of the transmitting standards respectively; and a switching module for switching different circuit infrastructures in the transmitting unit corresponding to different transmitting standards, allowing a user to select a circuit infrastructure in the transmitting unit corresponding to a specific transmitting standard of storage units via the switching module, and replace the second interface with another second interface provided with the specific transmitting standard, so as to allow the expansion device to be connected with one or more of the storage units provided with the specific transmitting standard.