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IBM Developing Lego-like Storage Brick
AaronW writes "According to this story at EE Times IBM is developing a 32TB storage system built around blocks that can be stacked like Lego bricks. Apparently they will be connected in a 3x3x3 mesh using capacitive coupling and will be water cooled."
This is just a marketing ploy so they can sell storage Clusters shaped like Castles, Pirate Ships and the Millenium Falcon!
No I am serious, can you just imagine it?
>>>>>> Chewie, take the professor in the back and plug him into the hyperdrive.
"IBM's Ice Cube project aims to define a way for end users to easily maintain increasing amounts of data, while also plowing ground for a similar approach to computing systems."
Ice Cube? Lemme guess: They sell a bandwidth package for Internet hosting called "Ice T"
Their bandwidth monitoring and packet sniffer is called "Snoop Dog."
Oh wait...IBM's PS/2 had the MCA bus. Maybe that was a Beastie Boys reference. Maybe IBM has been into Rap and the like for a long time...
2. Tinkertoy: storage structures too delicate, engineers kept losing fins for making "windmill" structure.
3: Play-Doh: kept getting stuck in carpet.
4. Erector Set: engineers spent too much time making jokes about name.
...do you end up having to pull em apart with your teeth? I'd rather not, I'm sure they get really hot.
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Looks like an excellent step towards a truly borg like information technology system.
IBM: resistence is futile!
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Just think with this you could "move" the cube farm from one room to another without killing the power or anything. Just move 1 cube at a time from one side to the other. haha
Do you changes clothes while making the "chee-chee-cha-cha-choh" transformation sound?
Rubik's Cube has a place ... it's the cube where you put the dedicated encryption hardware.
Here's an image: Given a one time pad, the security guy goes in every morning and fiddles with the cube to get it to match today's patterm.
>Ice cube uses a 3x3x3 array of 27 cubes.
You know damn well that the block that fails is *always* going to be the block stuck in the middle!
Of course, instead of growing, the whole unit would now have a tendency to migrate across the room...
Gives a whole new meaning to the term "data migration", doesn't it?
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