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Re:Fifty or Sixty Years of Processor Development for This? by jacquesm on Wednesday April 04, 2018 @01:57PM (#16757217)
Every modern hard drive is a computer in its own right.
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Re:Fifty or Sixty Years of Processor Development for This? by sliken on Wednesday April 04, 2018 @10:25PM (#16761286)
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.

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