| 摘要 |
Bay RAM Five is a very high-speed solid-state data storage device with 4 independently controlled banks of 4 DDR3 SO-DIMM sockets per bank, 4 industry-standard SATA data connectors, and one 12V input DC power connector, all housed within an enclosure compatible with 5.25″ drive bays found in common PC chassis. The 4 controllers are independently switched with jumper blocks, allowing backward- and forward-compatibility with SATA chipsets and add-on controllers transmitting data at various speeds. A separate jumper switches the device's firmware from the 8 b/10 b “legacy frame” to the 128 b/130 b “jumbo frame” now in the PCI-Express 3.0 specification. The 5.25″ enclosure has room for 3 40×40 mm cooling fans, either 20 mm or 10 mm thick: fans are powered by 3 fan headers integrated onto the PCB, or a separate power supply installed in the PC chassis. |
| 主权项 |
1. Inventor hereby asserts a single claim that Bay RAM Five is entirely unique and without equal in the global marketplace for computer data storage devices, because it incorporates all of the following features into a single device:
(a) four (4) independently controlled banks of four (4) DDR3 SO-DIMM sockets per bank are designed fit within the 3-D geometry of an industry-standard 5.25″ drive bay, when fully populated with 16× industry-standard DDR3 SO-DIMMs, also known as “laptop RAM”; (b) four (4) independently controlled banks of four (4) DDR3 SO-DIMM sockets are designed to accommodate up to 16× industry-standard DDR3 SO-DIMMs in capacities up to 16 Gigabytes (“GB”) per SO-DIMM (i.e. 64 GB per bank, 256 GB per Bay RAM Five device); (c) each of the four (4) independent controllers connects directly to an industry-standard SATA data connector located at the rear (internal) panel of the 5.25″ enclosure; (d) each of the four (4) independent controllers is optioned with a dedicated jumper block, and with a factory default of 600 MBps and the now standard 8 b/10 b “legacy frame” during data transmission; (e) each of those jumper blocks has options for 150 (“1.5 G”), 300 (“3 G”) and 800 MBps (“8 G”), to override the factory defaults; (f) each of those jumper blocks also has an option to enable the 128 b/130 b “jumbo frame”, also to override the “6 G” factory default and to be compatible with published PCI-Express 3.0 specifications; (g) a single direct current (“DC”) connector is also located at the rear (internal) panel of the 5.25″ enclosure, to supply input DC power; (h) the latter DC connector ships from the factory either as a standard SATA power connector, or as a “barrel-type” connector popular with flat panel monitors, or as a “DIN-type” connector in order to support higher amperages as needed (yet to be decided); and, (i) the enclosure is also unique for accommodating all of the above, with proper fasteners to secure the PCB, room for up to three (3) 40×40 mm cooling fans (either 20 mm or 10 mm thick) at the front, and a custom trim piece with integrated dust filter which attaches very simply to the enclosure's front panel with 2 visible machine screws. |
