USB key RAID?
A thought: I wonder if you can RAID USB flashdrives?
At the very least, you could jack a few of them into a USB hub, and use them as some sort of memory module.
Hmm...
--GG
posted by Gye Greene @ 10:50 PM
Tuesday, March 04, 2008
At the very least, you could jack a few of them into a USB hub, and use them as some sort of memory module.
Hmm...
--GG
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I was thinking the exact same thing, have you come across anything of the sort?
Nope; it's an original idea. :)
Could be other folks that have thought of it, though: I haven't yet tried Googling it.
--GG
I've noticed that flash drives don't perform well with multitasking (e.g., running two or more copy operations at the same time) and are slower when using a journaling filesystem (e.g., reiserfs, ext3, OS X journaled) instead of a standard filesystem (e.g., FAT, ext2). If that's indeed true, then RAID 0 would be the only type that would offer a performance advantage. RAIF anyone? (Redundant Array of Flash Drives? Spiffy term to coin perhaps :-)
Having a RAIF array -- I like it! :)
--GG
Nope, it is an old idea...
see here:
http://cs.joensuu.fi/~mmeri/usbraid/
Brilliant; thx for the link! :)
(Curious: how'd you stumble across this blog entry? Googling for something, I suppose?)
--GG
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