Interchangeable Data Storage Bricks?

Posted by michael on Friday December 17, 2004 @04:39AM from the rated-n-for-not-as-easy-as-they-say dept.

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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Dead bricks by FooAtWFU · 2004-12-17 04:42 · Score: -1, Redundant

No mention is made of what happens when a brick in the middle of the cube needs to be replaced
Actually, from TFA:
IBM is studying which configurations would be most effective for maintenance, Gardner said.

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