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DRIVE MESSAGE ROUTER

  • US 20150293878A1
  • Filed: 04/10/2015
  • Published: 10/15/2015
  • Est. Priority Date: 04/11/2014
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A multi-drive non-transient storage unit (mass storage unit) comprising:

  • a plurality of disk drives each possessing at least one magnetic disk and a disk drive connector;

    a drive message router possessing the disk drive connector, a controller, and solid state storage, the drive message router does not possess a magnetic disk;

    a motherboard that is connected to each of the disk drives and the drive message router via the disk drive connectors, wherein the motherboard is adapted to communicate to each of the disk drives and the drive message router via a disk drive protocol, the drive message router is seen as a disk drive by the motherboard;

    a bezel electrically connected to the drive message router via a bus that is adapted to transfer data in a non-disk drive protocol;

    a plurality of lights visibly disposed on the bezel;

    a plurality of different light sequence instructions retained in the solid state memory, wherein each of the light sequence instructions instructs the plurality of lights to illuminate in a different pattern; and

    a data packet retained in the solid state memory wherein the data packet includes a message to execute a subset of the plurality of different light sequence instructions, the data packet originating from the motherboard, based on the message to execute the controller adapted to control illumination of the plurality of lights in the subset of the plurality of different light sequence instructions via the non-disk drive protocol.

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