Previous Hacker News discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8665865

Great hack and great writeup.

Since part of this work was originally done back in 2013 it seams like some vendors have started experimenting with hard drives with direct Ethernet connection. Some folks I know have even gotten access to prototype models to hack on. This is fascinating to me because I love messing around with distributed systems and I think this will open up a whole new world of possibilities.

This article is the reason why I read HN. I admire the author's persistence and cleverness, but also the writeup is very good and gives a clear glimpse into each step. Bravo!

a hard drive, an apple :D