Disk drive packaging enclosure

An arrangement of a plurality of disk drives having a interconnect control card and a plurality of disk drive carriers. The interconnect control card includes a plurality of serial interconnects; each one of the serial interconnects comprising a plurality of serially connected switches. Each one of...

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1. Verfasser: Linnell, Thomas E
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Sprache:eng
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Zusammenfassung:An arrangement of a plurality of disk drives having a interconnect control card and a plurality of disk drive carriers. The interconnect control card includes a plurality of serial interconnects; each one of the serial interconnects comprising a plurality of serially connected switches. Each one of such disk drive carriers has thereon a different portion of the plurality disk drives. The disk drives on each one of the carriers are connected to the switches in a different one of the plurality of serial interconnects. The disk drives on different ones of the carriers provide a RAID group.