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by mcclung 2484 days ago
> Very neat to see it on the storage side, and something I don't think anyone could fathom back in the spinning disk days.

Seagate had a product called Kinetic that was an Ethernet-connected key-value spinning disk. We had a 1U box with a number of 4000GB drives in our lab for an evaluation.

It was interesting but we didn't find a use for it. Product is dead now as far as I know.