Seagate had a cool project where each hard drive ran linux and they used the physical sas cable to run a 2.5 Gbit network (or two actually) per drive. So you c

Seagate had a cool project where each hard drive ran linux and they used the physical sas cable to run a 2.5 Gbit network (or two actually) per drive. So you could use that as block storage for luster, hadoop, or similar and enable things like direct disk to disk copies. Cool idea, seems unlikely to hit a reasonable price point though.