CN101866270B - Data storage device compatible with multiple interconnect standards - Google Patents

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CN101866270B
CN101866270B CN201010188007.2A CN201010188007A CN101866270B CN 101866270 B CN101866270 B CN 101866270B CN 201010188007 A CN201010188007 A CN 201010188007A CN 101866270 B CN101866270 B CN 101866270B
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A data storage device comprises a data storage medium and a connector that provides an interface between the data storage medium and a host device. The connector has a shape that substantially conforms to an internal storage interconnect standard. The connector comprises a first set of electrical contacts that substantially conform to the internal storage interconnect standard, and a second set of contacts configured to provide connectivity with the host device in accordance with an external storage interconnect standard. Also described are cables for connecting the data storage device to a host via the external storage interconnect standard as well as an interconnect detector.

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With the data storage device of multiple interconnect standards compatibility
This application requires the U.S. Provisional Application No.61/127 that on May 15th, 2008 submits to, and the rights and interests of 808, its full content is by reference to being incorporated in this.
Background technology
Different data storage devices, as solid storage device and disc driver, can be connected to main process equipment according to a kind of standard in multiple interconnect standards, as computing machine, personal media player or the network equipment.Interconnect standards defines electrically and mechanical interface, and interconnect standards electrically and mechanical interface normally this interconnect standards is exclusive.
Interconnect standards comprises intraconnection standard, namely for the standard of the connection between main process equipment and the data storage device in main process equipment shell, with external interconnect standard, namely for the standard of main frame and the connection between the data storage device of main process equipment outside.The example of intraconnection standard comprises Serial Advanced Technology Attachment (SATA) standard, ide (IDE) standard, small computer system interface (SCSI) standard and Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) (SAS) standard.The example of external interconnect standard comprises USB (universal serial bus) (USB) standard, IEEE-1394 (live wire) standard, optical-fibre channel (FC) standard, Internet SCSI (iSCSI) standard and outside SATA (eSATA) standard.
Summary of the invention
As an example, the present invention is directed to the data storage device comprising data storage medium and connector, this connector provides the interface between data storage medium and main process equipment.This connector has the shape meeting in fact storage inside interconnect standards.This connector comprises first group of electric contact meeting in fact storage inside interconnect standards and is configured to provide and second of the connection of main process equipment group of contact according to exterior storage interconnect standards.
These and other various characteristics and advantages will be discussed in more detail below.
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Figure 1A-1B shows to comprise and has one group of data storage device being configured to the improvement SATA connector of the electric contact providing USB to connect added.
Fig. 2 is the conceptual schema with the data storage device of multiple interconnect standards compatibility.
Fig. 3 shows the alternate exemplary of the data storage device described in Figure 1A-1B.
Fig. 4 shows the data storage device comprising connector array, and this connector array comprises SATA connector and USB connector.
Fig. 5 shows the cable being convenient to SATA and USB synchronized links.
Fig. 6 shows the cable comprising improvement SATA connector and USB connector.
Fig. 7 shows and comprises SATA power connector, the feed cable of AC socket plug and AC-DC converter.
Fig. 8 shows the system of the data storage device comprised in Fig. 1, and it is connected to host computer by the cable in Fig. 6.
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Figure 1A-1B shows data storage device 100.Fig. 2 shows the conceptual schema of data storage device 100.Data storage device 100 is compatible with multiple interconnect standards.Specifically, as seen in figs. 1 a-1b, data storage device 100 comprises standard serial Advanced Technology Attachment (SATA) connector array 106, comprises SATA power connector 120 and improvement SATA connector 110.Connector 110 is improved connectors, because it also comprises electric contact 114 except the electric contact defined by SATA interconnect standards (i.e. contact 112).As will be described in more detail, data storage device 100 and electric contact 114 are configured to be provided in connection between data storage device 100 and main process equipment according to USB standard.
Data storage device 100 comprises bottom 104 and lid 102, and they combine and form the shell of accommodation data storage medium 101.As shown in Figure 1A, data storage medium 101 can comprise rotatable magnetic data storage diskette.In addition, as shown in Figure 2, data storage medium 101 can comprise the solid-state memory with the one or more memory modules 103 be arranged on circuit board 140.The example of applicable data storage medium comprises solid-state memory, static RAM (SRAM) and the dynamic RAM (DRAM) that can rewrite magnetic data storage diskette, such as flash memory.Also can use other data storage mediums, and in some instances, data storage medium 101 can comprise more than one data storage medium.In different examples, data storage medium 101 can provide the data storage capacity of data storage capacity, the even at least 500GB of data storage capacity, at least 200GB of data storage capacity, at least 100GB of data storage capacity, at least 40GB of data storage capacity, at least 20GB of at least 10 GB (GB).
Data storage device 100 also comprises connector array 106.Connector array 106 comprises the wire jumper module 130 selecting pin 132 containing the SATA power connector 120 of electric contact 122, improvement SATA connector 110 and the speed with wire jumper 136.When wire jumper module 130 is shown as connector array 106 a part of, wire jumper module 130 can be positioned on any position of data storage device 100.Such as, wire jumper module 130 can be positioned on the back side of data storage device 100, relative with connector array 106.Such configuration will be convenient to for additional connector provides the space be included together with connector array 106.As shown in Figure 4, it comprises the USB connector of the part as connector array to such example.
The connector array 106 comprising the physical dimension of SATA power connector 120 and improvement SATA connector 110 meets in fact the SATA standard that SATA international organization provides.As mentioned here, the actual consistance of interconnect standards means that interface provides and is connected with the function of the mating interface meeting interconnect standards.To during submission the application, SATA international organization provides at least three kinds of specifications, comprising: the specification of SATA1.5GB/s, the specification of SATA3GB/s and the specification of SATA6GB/s.The specification of SATA6GB/s is also referred to as " serial ATA international organization: serial ATA 3.0 revision version ", and in or ratified by SATA international organization on August 18th, about 2008.Each full content of these SATA specifications includes reference herein in.In other examples, connector or connector array can meet in fact different intraconnection standards, the standard of such as ide (IDE) standard (also referred to as parallel advanced technology annex (PATA) standard), small computer system interface (SCSI) standard, Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) (SAS) and super ATA standard.This list is not limit, and other intraconnection standards can be also suitable according to technology disclosed herein.
Improvement SATA connector 110 is the plug connectors with L tee section, comprises the long limit and minor face of intersecting and forming interior turning 111.Electric contact 112 is positioned on the long limit of L tee section, and is in the side identical with interior turning 111 on long limit.Electric contact 112 comprises 7 independently according to the electric contact of SATA specification configuration, to provide the connection with main process equipment according to SATA specification.
Improvement SATA connector 110 also comprises electric contact 114, and it forms the additional electric contact being different from SATA specification defined electric contact.Electric contact 114 is positioned on the long limit of L tee section, and is in the side relative with interior turning 111 on long limit.Electric contact 114 comprises 9 independently electric contacts, so that the external interconnect standard of USB standard defined according to such as USB implementer forum (USB Implementers Forum, Inc) and the connection of main process equipment.To during submission the application, USB implementer forum has published at least 4 specifications, comprising: USB 1.0 specification, in USB 1.1 specification, USB 2.0 specification and USB 3.0 specification.The revision 1.0 editions of USB 3.0 specification by USB implementer forum in or deliver on November 12nd, 2008.In addition, USB 1.0 specification in or deliver in January, 1996, USB 1.1 specification in or deliver in September, 1998, USB 2.0 specification in or deliver in April, 2000.The full content head of each of these USB specifications is by reference to including in herein.In other examples, connector or connector array can be convenient to be connected with main process equipment according to different external interconnect standards, as IEEE-1394 (live wire) standard, optical-fibre channel (FC) standard, Internet SCSI (iSCSI) standard, outside SATA (eSATA) standard.This list is not exhaustive, and other external interconnect standards can be also suitable according to technology disclosed herein.In some instances, substitute and be convenient to according to the connection of one or more external interconnect standard or in addition, the improved connector of such as connector 110 can be convenient to connect according to multiple intraconnection standard.
As previously mentioned, electric contact 114 comprises 9 independently electronic contacts, so that be connected with main process equipment according to the external interconnect standard of such as USB standard.Exemplarily, USB 3.0 specification defines interconnect standards, comprising 9 independent conductors.Although USB 3.0 specification comprises 9 electric contacts, other external interconnect standard comprises the electric contact of varying number, and the quantity being included in the independent electric contact in electric contact 114 can do corresponding amendment.Data storage device 100 can be configured to the communication protocol communication using electric contact 114 and be associated with USB 3.0 specification.Use the cable becoming to meet the connector defined by the external interconnect standard of such as USB3.0 specification by the configuration transitions of electric contact 114, data storage device 100 can use external interconnect standard to be directly connected to main process equipment.Cable 600 is as shown in Figure 6 examples for this cable.
Even if with the addition of electric contact 114, connector array 106 is also completely compatible with the equipment configured according to SATA interconnect standards.Such as, data storage device 100 can be directly installed on the disk drive bracket according to the notebook of SATA interconnect standards configuration.In this configuration, the electrical connection between laptop computer and data storage device comprises electric contact 112 only, and does not comprise electric contact 114.In other examples, external interconnect standard can and intraconnection standard use with such as by message transmission rate that data storage device 100 is connected to multiple main process equipment or improves between data storage device 100 and main process equipment simultaneously.As another example, data storage device 100 can be configured to main process equipment can be identified as two independently equipment by data storage device 100: an equipment by intraconnection standard traffic and another equipment by external interconnect standard traffic.In in these examples any one, such as the cable of cable 500 (Fig. 5) can be used to provide the electrical connection between data storage device 100 and main process equipment.
With reference to Fig. 2, when being initially connected to main frame, interconnection detector 142 is determined the physical connection that exists to main process equipment and is identified the interconnect standards of this physical connection.Such as, the detector 142 that interconnects can determine that the interconnect standards of physical connection is SATA standard or USB standard or both have both at the same time.The interconnect standards of this physical connection is stored into local storage in 144 by interconnection detector 142.
After this initially connects, data storage device 100 receives data access order from main process equipment, such as read or write command by the improvement SATA connector 110 in connector array 106.The order of importing into is processed by the controller 141 be arranged on circuit board 140.Controller 141 communicates with main process equipment according to the interconnect standards being stored into the local physical connection stored in 144.Controller 141 according to be stored into local store in 144 procedure operation to dispatch the execution of each data access order.Impact damper 146 stores the data that will be written to storage medium 101 temporarily and also stores the data waited for and transfer to main process equipment from data storage medium 101 temporarily.In some instances, the function of controller 141 and interconnection detector 142 can be included in the universal integrated circuit be installed on circuit board 140.
Data storage device 100 has many advantages than the data storage device only carrying out single interconnect standards.By carrying out multiple interconnect standards, data storage device can be used as internal data storage devices and external data storage device.While this dirigibility may be useful for consumer, also can be favourable from business and manufacturing angle.The manufacturing facility of data storage device represents great amount of investment.The dirigibility that multiple interconnect standards of data storage device 100 provide makes manufacturer can provide the data storage device of outside or inside according to the market demand when not changing its manufacturing facility or manufacturing schedule.After production, one of interconnect standards that only data storage device 100 carries out can be selected the function of data storage device 100 to be limited to by manufacturer.Correspondingly, manufacturer can arrange different price point for different interconnect standards data storage devices 100, with the profitability of maximum data memory device 100.In addition, manufacturer can be applicable to the mode Update Table memory device 100 of its desired use.Such as, when expection is used as external data storage device, manufacturer can add shock absorber part in the outside of data storage device 100, or when expecting as manufacturer during internal data storage devices in the outside of data storage device 100 interpolation stationary installation.
Fig. 3 shows data storage device 200, and it provides the alternative electrode configuration of improvement SATA connector 210 relative to the improvement SATA connector 110 of data storage device 100.In other respects, data storage device 200 is roughly the same with data storage device 100.For simplicity, details more same or analogous with the data storage device 100 discussed of data storage device 200, no longer repeat to discuss for data storage device 200.
The same with data storage device 100, data storage device 200 is compatible with multiple interconnect standards.Data storage device 200 comprises the connector array 206 with SATA power connector 220 and improvement SATA connector 210.Connector 210 is improved connectors, because it also comprises electric contact 214 except the electric contact defined by SATA interconnect standards (i.e. electric contact 212).Connector array 206 and improvement SATA connector 210 meet in fact SATA standard.Just as described in more detail below, data storage device 200 and electric contact 214 are configured to provide connection according to USB standard.
Data storage device 200 comprises bottom 204 and lid 202, and they combine and form the shell of accommodation data storage medium 201.Data storage medium 201 is rotatable magnetic data storage diskette, solid-state memory or other data storage mediums.Data storage device 200 also comprises connector array 206.Connector array 206 comprises selects pin 232 containing the SATA power connector 220 of electric contact 222, improvement SATA connector 210 and the speed with wire jumper 236.The connector array 206 comprising the physical dimension of SATA power connector 220 and improvement SATA connector 210 meets in fact the SATA standard that SATA international organization provides.
Improvement SATA connector 210 is the plug connectors with L tee section, comprises the long limit and minor face of intersecting and forming interior turning 211.Electric contact 212 is positioned on the long limit of L tee section, and is in the side identical with interior turning 211 on long limit.Electric contact 212 comprises 7 independently electric contacts according to the configuration of SATA specification, to provide the connection with main process equipment according to SATA specification.
Improvement SATA connector 210 also comprises electric contact 214, and it forms the additional electric contact being different from SATA specification defined electric contact.Electric contact 214 is positioned on the long limit of L tee section, and is in the side relative with interior turning 211 on long limit.Electric contact 214 comprises five independently electric contacts.The connection of external interconnect standard according to such as USB standard or other standards and main process equipment is convenient in the combination of electric contact 214 and electric contact 212.Such as, USB 3.0 specification has 9 contacts.For ease of connecting according to USB 3.0 specification, data storage device uses at least 9 contacts altogether, and electric contact 212,214 must use.Such as, electric contact 212 4 contacts can with 5 of electric contact 214 contact combination.What use conversion electric contact 212,214 is configured to the cable meeting the connector defined by the external interconnect standard of such as USB 3.0 specification, and data storage device 200 can use external interconnect standard to be directly connected to main process equipment.
Fig. 4 shows data storage device 300, and it provides the replaceable configuration of connector array 306 relative to the connector array 106 of data storage device 100.In other respects, data storage device 300 is roughly the same with data storage device 100.For simplicity, details more same or analogous with the data storage device 100 discussed of data storage device 300, no longer repeat to discuss for data storage device 300.
The same with data storage device 100, data storage device 300 is compatible with multiple interconnect standards.Data storage device 300 comprises standard SATA connector array 306, and this array comprises the SATA power connector 320 containing electric contact 322 and the standard SATA connector 310 containing electric contact 312.In addition, connector array 306 comprises Minimized USB connector 340 so that connect according to USB standard.The cable of the use USB of meeting standard easy to use instead of the normal cable required by data storage device 100,200 of Minimized USB connector connect between data storage device 300 and main process equipment.In other examples, meet the alternative Minimized USB connector 340 of connector of different inside or external interconnect standard.
Fig. 5 shows cable 500.Synchronous SATA with USB between the data storage device that cable 500 is convenient to main frame and such as data storage device 100 (Fig. 1) is connected.Cable 500 comprise there is electric contact 554,556 socket type connector 550, there is the standard SATA connector 560 of electric contact 566 and there is the typical USB connector 570 of electric contact 574 and protective cover 572.
Socket type connector 550 is configured to coordinate improvement SATA connector 110 (Fig. 1) and the shape with the intraconnection standard met in fact as SATA standard.Cable section 558 comprises 16 conductors, each of the corresponding electric contact 554,556 of a conductor.Cable section 558 extends between socket type connector 550 and joint 580.
At joint 580, the conductor in cable section 558 is connected to the conductor in cable section 568,578.Cable section 568 comprises seven conductors provides connection with the SATA standard according to such as SATA 6.0GB/s specification, and cable section 578 comprises nine conductors according to the USB standard of such as USB 3.0 specification.Conductor in cable section 558,568,578 and joint 580 is used for the electric contact 566 electric contact 554 of connector 550 being directly connected to connector 560, and the electric contact 556 of connector 550 is directly connected to the electric contact 574 of connecting connector 570.
Fig. 6 shows cable 600.Cable 600 be convenient to main frame and as data storage device 100 (Fig. 1) data storage device between USB connect.Cable 600 comprises the socket type connector 650 with electric contact 654 and the typical USB connector 670 with electric contact 674 and protective cover 672.
Socket type connector 650 is configured to coordinate improvement SATA connector 110 (Fig. 1) and the shape with the intraconnection standard met in fact as SATA standard.Socket type connector 650 does not comprise the contact according to SATA specification, because this contact connects dispensable for USB.That is, in data storage device 100, contact 112 is configured to provide connection according to SATA specification instead of USB specification.
9 conductors are comprised to provide connection according to USB specification cable section 658.Conductor in cable section 658 is used for the electric contact 654 of connector 650 being directly connected to the electric contact 674 of connector 670 thus facilitating USB to connect.
Fig. 7 illustrates power cable 700.Power cable 700 comprises SATA power connector 750, cable 758, AC/DC changeover switch 790 and Socket pin 792.The equipment that power cable 700 can be used for directly to comprising SATA power connector (such as the connector 120 of data storage device 100 (Fig. 1)) is powered.Although USB standard comprises electric power supply, this power supply is powered for the data storage device to such as data storage device 100 may be not enough.About these data storage devices, when they operate as external data storage device, power cable 700 can be used for powering to data storage device, and what combine with it is be convenient to the independent cable that USB between data storage device and main process equipment connects.SATA specification comprises the different voltages of the different electronic contacts for electric contact 756.AC/DC changeover switch 790 provides different DC voltage according to SATA specification defined to different electronic contacts.
Fig. 8 shows system 800, and it comprises the data storage device 100 (Fig. 1) being connected to main process equipment 810 by cable 600 (Fig. 6).System 800 also comprises power cable 700 (Fig. 7), and it comprises the AC/DC changeover switch (790) inserting socket 830.Data storage device is configured to use the USB standard as USB 3.0 specification to communicate with main process equipment.
As shown in Figure 8, main process equipment 800 is personal computers.In other examples, data storage device 100 can be connected to the different main process equipment using inner or external interconnect standard.The example of suitable main process equipment comprises the network equipment, as server, laptop computer, media player or other portable set, video game console and other equipment.In this manner, the data storage device being convenient to connect according to multiple interconnect standards described herein is applicable to the various equipment comprising data storage.
Above-mentioned realization and other realizations are within the scope of the appended claims.

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1. a data storage device, comprising:
Improved serial Advanced Technology Attachment (SATA) plug connector, there is long limit and be combined the L tee section forming turning with minor face, be positioned at first group of electric contact on the side, long limit of described L tee section and be positioned at the long limit of described L tee section relative to the second group of different electric contacts on opposite side, described first group of electric contact optionally connects described data storage device and main process equipment according to Serial Advanced Technology Attachment (SATA) interconnect standards, described second group of electric contact is according to being selected from by IEEE-1394 (live wire) standard, optical-fibre channel (FC) standard, Internet SCSI (iSCSI) standard and outside SATA (eSATA) standard, ide (IDE) standard, parallel advanced technology annex (PATA) standard, small computer system interface (SCSI) standard, Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) (SAS) standard is optionally connected described data storage device and main process equipment with the interconnect standards of the group that super ATA standard is formed,
Interconnection detector, is configured to the connection determining to there is described data storage device and described main process equipment and the interconnect standards detected joined with described join dependency is designated one of described SATA interconnect standards and selected interconnect standards; And
Controller, in response to from described main process equipment data access order and in response to the interconnect standards detected, between described data storage device and described main process equipment, transmit data according to described SATA interconnect standards via described first group of electric contact, and between described data storage device and miscellaneous equipment, transmit data according to described selected interconnect standards via described second group of electric contact.
2. data storage device as claimed in claim 1, it is characterized in that, described first group of contact is positioned at side identical with the interior section at turning on long limit.
3. data storage device as claimed in claim 1, is characterized in that, comprise data storage medium, and wherein said controller is by described data storage medium and described main process equipment transferring data.
4. data storage device as claimed in claim 1, is characterized in that, comprise solid-state memory, and wherein said controller is by described solid-state memory and described main process equipment transferring data.
5. data storage device as claimed in claim 1, it is characterized in that, also comprise one end and can be connected to the first connector and opposite end can be connected to the communication link of described main process equipment, described opposite end is branched off into SATA connector and USB (universal serial bus) (USB) connector.
6. data storage device as claimed in claim 5, is characterized in that, described controller simultaneously according to SATA interconnect standards and described selected interconnect standards via described communication link transferring data.
7. data storage device as claimed in claim 1, it is characterized in that, also comprise the communication link the first connector being connected to described main process equipment, described communication link has the AC-DC converter that can be used to and power to described data storage device.
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