The Lego Brick Hard Drive

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Posted by CmdrTaco on Wednesday November 23, 2005 @04:00AM from the well-christmas-is-coming-up dept.

Billosaur writes "With Lego being in the news after completion of their lawsuit against Mega Bloks, I found this interesting little tidbit on Boing Boing, about a company that makes stackable Lego Brick-shaped Hard Drives. With Hi-Speed USB 2.0 interface, it offers the fast data transfer rates required for substantial jobs like downloading digital photos, saving MP3s or transferring home videos from a camcorder. Available desktop models are: 160GB (white), 250GB (red), 300GB (blue) and 500GB (red). But can you build a Star Destroyer out of them?"

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Lego Hard Drive Sex by staticsage · 2005-11-23 04:04 · Score: 4, Funny

While we're linking boingboing... Why not stack the hard drives and have some crazy lego sex:
http://www.boingboing.net/2002/11/13/lego_sex.html
Destroyer, yes! by Nom+du+Keyboard · 2005-11-23 04:05 · Score: 4, Funny

But can you build a Star Destroyer out of them?
Maybe I can't build a Star Destroyer out of them, but I could certainly build a big enough block of P2P storage to destroy the Enemies of the Empire -- the **AA's.

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I developed a hard-drive-shaped Lego brick by Anonymous Coward · 2005-11-23 04:06 · Score: 5, Funny

But it was a total failure. I totally underestimated the entrenchment of the IDE bus standard in the Lego world. My hard-drive-shaped Lego brick only supported SATA.
In unrelated news... by __aaxwdb6741 · 2005-11-23 04:09 · Score: 5, Funny

Google has just built a LEGO castle.
1. Re:In unrelated news... by patio11 · 2005-11-23 04:14 · Score: 3, Funny
  
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Why build a Star Destroyer when there's Slashdot by gasmonso · 2005-11-23 04:10 · Score: 5, Funny

Why build one when you have Slashdot at your disposal. Just aim it at any site, and KABLAM, they're gone. Nice job taking out lacie. Slashdot strikes once again and shows no mercy (queue evil empire music).
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Re:Not lego sized, just lego shaped by SysSupport · 2005-11-23 04:10 · Score: 3, Funny

Note to self:
Do not use Lego shaped drive to host web site.
10 PB Star Destroyer at 1/100 scale? by nathan+s · 2005-11-23 04:13 · Score: 2, Funny

That would be pretty funny. Or a full house built with these things...suddenly you measure your rooms in tera- or petabytes instead of square feet. Think of all the pr0n in the walls...

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1. Re:10 PB Star Destroyer at 1/100 scale? by Anonymous Coward · 2005-11-23 04:18 · Score: 1, Funny
  
  If those walls could display.... or even talk.
Bah! by GillBates0 · 2005-11-23 04:15 · Score: 5, Funny

You young 'uns and your fancy-schmancy "lego shaped hard drives". Back in my day, we had none of these uppity "LaCie hard drives" in rainbow colors to lighten up our day.
We used to lug our trusty, stacks of punch cards on our backs each time we wanted to transfer data. Nothing builds character (and balls) like having to restack a pile of 1K+ punch cards that have fallen over on a Friday evening.
No sirree, we didn't play these childish games in the computer room in my day, and that's how we liked it.

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1. Re:Bah! by AntiDragon · 2005-11-23 04:25 · Score: 2, Funny
  
  Punch cards? Punch cards?!? Young 'un, you don't know how lucky you were! In my day we had to memorise the blinking lights and then toggle the sequence back in after driving for 8 hours to reach the other computer! If we wanted fancy colours we had to wear coloured lenses while looking at the lights.
  
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2. Re:Bah! by ch-chuck · 2005-11-23 04:43 · Score: 3, Funny
  
  That's odd, because punch cards predate the use of toggle in software and binary address/data lights.
  
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gives new meaning to the term... by tomcres · 2005-11-23 04:15 · Score: 2, Funny

...my server's a total brick
It's Lego, not Legos! by muftak · 2005-11-23 04:16 · Score: 3, Funny

I used to like Legos, but now I only like sheeps.
The Evolution of Leggo by Ted+Holmes · 2005-11-23 04:30 · Score: 3, Funny

I hope Leggo's vision is to eventually embedded each brick with intelligence. They'll have an awesome product which would allow users an object-oriented way to assemble cool stuff at home. An example would be Leggo-style self replicating cubes.
It would compliment the emerging desktop fabricators quite nicely.
Imagine the new "Do It Yourself opportunities.

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Re:This would be better... by Liquorman · 2005-11-23 04:39 · Score: 2, Funny

Or if it was made from Eggo rather than Lego... mmmm, delicious data...
Another slashdotting by steveo777 · 2005-11-23 04:57 · Score: 5, Funny

I actually feel sorry for Lacie. In this case, somebody might have been watching the network activity and thinking, "Hey, things are looking up!"
Just then the server starts shaking.
The coffee pot mysterously drains into nowhere.
Smoke rises from the PSU's, the redundent power supplies buzz and spurt, with every attempt at survival.
The netadmin's smile turns to a look of horror, "No, this can't be. NOOOOOOOO!!! DAMN YOU SLASHDOT!"

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Re:This would be better... by Kelson · 2005-11-23 06:12 · Score: 3, Funny

Or if it was made from Eggo

No, thanks, I'd rather not toast my data...
Re:Not lego sized, just lego shaped by karnal · 2005-11-23 06:17 · Score: 4, Funny

Was it just me, or did anyone else read that first paragraph of the parent-to-this comment and think "But does it make your computer sound any warmer?" :)

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Re:more duplo than lego by ddusza · 2005-11-23 06:24 · Score: 3, Funny

Do you think they communicate with the host in Half-Duplo or Full-Duplo?
Lost the sig in the bankruptcy.

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Re:Just imagine... by berbo · 2005-11-23 07:02 · Score: 2, Funny

Just imagine a Beowulf cluster with these things!
...built in the shape of Beowulf!