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The Lego Brick Hard Drive

Posted by CmdrTaco on 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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  1. This would be better... by mattyohe · · Score: 3, Insightful

    if the surface of the enclosure was made from actual lego rivets so that you could build on top of it.

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    - what is the definition of simultanagnosia?! I've been meaning to look it up!
  2. Re:Not lego sized, just lego shaped by Andrewkov · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Internal drives tend to not be thrown in backpacks and generally abused, though.

  3. Nice ad... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Insightful
    Am I the only one to find that this submission reads exactly like an avert?

    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.
    I mean, come on!
  4. Re:Slashdotted. by s4ck · · Score: 2, Insightful

    is it just me or isn't it normal to expect a hardware manufacturer like lacie to be a bit more resilient then that?

  5. Ok, who else was misled by the title? by hal2814 · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I thought there was a fully functional hard drive made of LEGO! Instead it's just a hard drive that looks like a LEGO piece. What a bummer.

  6. Re:Optical interconnects and stackables by TexNex · · Score: 2, Insightful

    If I rememer correctly IBM was working on something to this effect a while back. It was more of a SAN platform than anything but, the concept was to have a snap together modular system so that to add another HD to the SAN all you had to do was plop in the brick and the array would take care of the rest. Since they were enclosed it was decided to go with a water cooling method so I don't know how they worked that one out. The info came from a Technology Review or Wired article.