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IBM Developing Lego-like Storage Brick

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the don't-play-with-the-storage dept.

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."

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  1. In my Crystal Ball I see... by DJ-Dodger · · Score: 4, Funny

    This is just a marketing ploy so they can sell storage Clusters shaped like Castles, Pirate Ships and the Millenium Falcon!

  2. Clever naming by Crag · · Score: 5, Funny

    "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...

  3. Rejected IBM storage device shapes by xxSOUL_EATERxx · · Score: 4, Funny
    1. Lincoln Log: kept rolling off table.

    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.

  4. So when you have a bad disk... by gnovos · · Score: 4, Funny

    ...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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