Patent ID: 7913025

Claim:
A storage device, comprising: an enclosure; a first interface operable to interface with a first I/O bus of a computing device utilizing a first protocol; a plurality of second I/O buses utilizing a second protocol, each of the one or more second I/O buses coupled to a corresponding storage media; and a controller comprising one or more queues operable to store commands received through the first interface, a translator operable to configure a communication in the first protocol or the second protocol wherein the controller is operable to translate a first command received on the first I/O bus to one or more second commands configured to implement the first command in conjunction with the plurality of second I/O buses and corresponding storage media 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 storage 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.