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Portwell Assigned Patent

Server supporting and automatically identifying IP and SATA HDD

Portwell, Inc., New Taipei, Taiwan, has been assigned a patent (10,025,601) developed by Chang, Cheng-Han, New Taipei, Taiwan, for a “server capable of supporting and automatically identifying IP hard disk and SATA hard disk.

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “A server capable of supporting and automatically identifying an IP hard disk and a SATA hard disk is operated under SDN. The server includes a machine body device. The machine body device is provided with a baseboard. The baseboard is electrically connected with electronic devices thereon. The electronic devices include an embedded controller IC on a back board, a multiplexer and a plurality of SoC modules on a load board, and a plurality of hard disks including at least one IP hard disk and one SATA hard disk. The embedded controller IC identifies each hard disk as the SATA hard disk or the IP hard disk according to a first potential signal of the telecommunication signal of the second pin of the signal terminals of each hard disk. The present invention meets the market for both IP hard disks and SATA hard disks and brings better economic benefits.

The patent application was filed on November 28, 2016 (15/362,029).

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