High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! EtherDrive is a brand name for a variety of storage area network devices based upon the ATA over Ethernet (AoE) protocol. EtherDrive is a registered trademark of Coraid, Inc.. EtherDrive is an invented word, owned and used as a trademark by Coraid since 2002 and registered with the United States Patent and Trademark Office in 2004. The word was invented by Brantley W. Coile as a portmanteau of the words Ethernet and disk drive.