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I first came across them in IBM's ice cube project around 2002 http://www.eetimes.com/electronics-news/4165609/IBM-stacks-hard-disk-bricks-to-build-dense-storag
by justincormack 14y ago
I first came across them in IBM's ice cube project around 2002 http://www.eetimes.com/electronics-news/4165609/IBM-stacks-hard-disk-bricks-to-build-dense-storage-cube http://www.eetimes.com/electronics-news/4165609/IBM-stacks-h... which was later spun out into a startup and then canned. I think this was before the Google fail in place stuff. Because it was a 3d mesh you actually couldn't get to the hardware to replace it. They had blocks of 12 drives to offset some of the drive to CPU cost issues. There are a bunch of papers on it if you dig around and its still an interesting model I think.