Systems and methods for providing accelerated data storage and retrieval utilizing lossless and/or lossy data compression and decompression. A data storage accelerator includes one or a plurality of high speed data compression encoders that are configured to simultaneously or sequentially losslessly...http://www.google.ca/patents/US6604158?utm_source=gb-gplus-sharePatent US6604158 - System and methods for accelerated data storage and retrieval