Thread: Bricklaying, a high-tech profession?
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Old 13-09-2003, 21:34   #4
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Originally posted by homealone
That is an interesting article, thanks Ron.

However, 12 hard disks in each brick in a 3x3x3 cube is a lot of hard disks (324) - anyone know how many watts are needed to run that many disks spinning up? - power requirements will be the limitation imo. - a 4x4x4 cube would be 768 hard disks fgs

Developing the technology for modular solid state memory might be more viable?
In a PC power would be a problem (so would the heat generated by all those disks spinning).

Don't know if it would be a problem in a mainframe or super computer though. I would have thought those things would have quite a powerful power supply.
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