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Interchangeable Data Storage Bricks?
shokk writes "EWeek is reporting that IBM is working on a concept called Ice Cube Storage Bricks that uses a conductive ceramic or mylar plate to transmit data between bricks across an air gap. Research center staff member Robert Gardner says that the idea is 'to walk up to the system, attach the storage and then walk away.' No mention is made of what happens when a brick in the middle of the cube needs to be replaced and the whole thing needs to be disassembled. To be really effective, this would need to be teamed up with some sort of a backplane, but the tech is new and neat."
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If you have to replace a block in the middle and the pile collapses, does the server crash and you lose?
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I knew that playing with legos would come in handy sooner or later.
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How long before we see sites dedicated to storage array building contests?
No mention is made of what happens when a brick in the middle of the cube needs to be replaced
Or, when the ice melts?
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That name for the individual bricks, coupled with the fact the picture they have on the website of the partially constructed collection looks kinda like this is rather disturbing.
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the term "air borne viruses".
An Indian-American Hindu committed to non-violent thought/speech/action alarmed by the global explosion of radical Islam
I remember reading about this a year or so ago.... ON SLASHDOT....
"The two most abundant elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity." -Harlan Ellison
...nother brick in the mass storage unit.
Darn. Doesn't scan.
It's getting bad when the person submitting the story doesn't even RTFA.
Reading the articles goes against the RFC.
Trolling is a art,
The solution is easy, too: there are three ceramic pads. One merely executes a Towers of Hanoi routine to work one's way down to the defective brick.
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I know that they are evil, because I've seen what they do.
...the answer is: It's all automatic. The bricks rearrange themselves in mid-air, and the broken bricks fall out.
Just watch Laputa. Near the end of the movie,- you see that Laputa is composed of these very same intelligent brick computers.
In answer to the question: "How do you replace the broken bricks in the middle?"
It's true.
Just watch the movie; It explains everything.
Duh.
You just said exactly what the parent poster said. Why did you write "Except" at the very beginning?
sigh I remember when the signal to noise ratio here wasn't so bad...