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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. Old News :) by AtrN · · Score: 4, Informative

    See Robert Morris's presentation (6+MB PDF) from the USENIX File and Storage Technologies conference. The videos of the invited talks are also worth watching (if you can afford the b/width to get them).

  2. New Scientist Article by Plasmadroid · · Score: 2, Informative

    This article IceCubes would mean cool computing at New Scientist covered the technology.

  3. Article didn't link to the picture by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Informative

    To see the picture, click here:
    http://img.cmpnet.com/eet/news/02/april/icecube_br ick.gif

    -Jake.

  4. Re:Water cooled? How to interconnect? by saider · · Score: 2, Informative

    Quoth the article...

    A water pipe rises through each vertical stack of bricks, linking to heat pipes on each module. The water cooling scheme is cheaper than air cooling, researchers said.

    So you connect a vertical stack with some plumbing. The joints are not moving and I doubt the system is pressurized, so maintenance is not a problem. Plumbing is the least of their worries. The vertical stacks probably just connect at ends and channel the water to a chiller. No big deal, really.

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  5. Re:2.5" hard drives? by amorsen · · Score: 2, Informative

    It does not seem that many manufacturers advertize the physical platter sizes, but Fujitsu is an expection: Fujitsu MAM15k RPM

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