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There's nothing like the real thing. And sometimes a mistake can be an unexpected treat. I'd like to see hard drives with a dip for a rom or asic that allowed a choice of connection protocalls including pci-e so up to 16 hard drives could be connected directly to a pci-e socket using other than a standard controller. The standard I/O could also be removed and replaced with a pci-e socket allong the edge so a daughter module could apply legacy or costom I/O. This latter feature would allow mother boards to be placed into other pci-e sockets like a mezzinine back plane. By placing pins on an opposite edge of a board they could be tiled and with hardware like an I beam or rib cage boards could be stacked providing longer upgrading cycles. Also 12-6v buss would allow standard generator, auto battery and chargers to be used as auxillery power. A standard edge could be used to route heat pipes so multiple boards could be placed into a rack case and share cooling by way of a metal, water or heat pipe conductor connected by heat transfer clips like a double wishbone (auto UV joint). These features would provide inexpensive high band width data transfer for the hobiest and small bussiness while allowing configuations inside rack mount cases. I realize there are many valid arguments in favor of standard blades with modular redundance and easy replacability, but still.

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