Computer hardware; computer chips; semiconductors; semiconductor chips; integrated circuits; microprocessors; micro controllers, data storage devices, components, or circuits, namely, computer hardware in the nature of drive controllers, preamplifiers, and computer hardware in the nature of read channels; computer hardware and downloadable computer software and firmware for use in storing, monitoring, and managing data in network attached storage devices and systems; integrated circuits for controlling hard disk drives; integrated circuits for processing data read from, and written to, hard disk drives; integrated circuits for controlling solid state drives; integrated circuits for processing data read from, and written to, solid state drives; integrated circuits for controlling the storage of data on a peripheral storage device connected to a host computer; integrated circuits for connecting multiple devices to a host computer over a PCI (Peripheral Component Interconnect) compliant connection; computer software and firmware for managing the storage of data on a peripheral storage device; computer software and firmware for managing the storage of data on a hard disk drive; computer software and firmware for managing the storage of data on a solid state drive; flash memory controllers; non-volatile memory Ethernet controllers; non-volatile memory accelerators; integrated circuits for connecting Serial ATA peripherals to PCI Express compliant hosts; serial attached SCSI (SAS) IO and RAID-on-Chip (RoC) controllers