| 摘要 |
<p>A hard disk drive (HDD) (1) comprising an additional application-specific component (13) for receiving and executing application-specific instructions. Standard ATA or SCSI hard disk drives comprise, at a minimum, a housing (3), rotating disk platters containing data, magnetic heads to read and write data to the rotating disks, and a controller circuit (11) for operating the rotation of the disk and read/write functions of the magnetic heads. An additional component is added to this standard list of components, the additional component being capable of receiving application specific instructions via a standard network connection and executing these application-specific instructions on the data contained on the rotating disks. The application-specific component (13) maybe in the form of an add-on board which couples to the controller circuit or, alternatively, in the form of an application-specific chip which mates with a socket provided on the controller circuit.</p> |
