You’re not the first person I’ve heard say to make a raid array of USB drives. Is that even logistically realistic? I mean, it sounds like a lot of effort that would ultimately end up with maybe half a terabyte of usable space. A single series could fill that.
Doable but honestly a pretty awful idea. Remember that they share a data bus, and have a low write endurance. About all its good for (aside from toying around with a silly sort of fun idea) is as a high speed spot for temporary data.
I set one up as a concept for temp storage of images being generated using a gaming engine that were being split and shoved out into multiple video streams. It worked, but there was no chance I’d rely on it (I even had a few of them die during the course of my goofing around).
Also you’ve got bus limits to deal with, so there is a limit to just how useful it can be in the first place. And for longer term storage, you’ve got a lot of risk for finicky behavior. So yeah, just not worth it, but technically doable.
Well, fuck me I guess.
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If only I could afford the storage these days.
Attend a few conventions, acquire a series of free thumb drives, and turn them into a storage array
You’re not the first person I’ve heard say to make a raid array of USB drives. Is that even logistically realistic? I mean, it sounds like a lot of effort that would ultimately end up with maybe half a terabyte of usable space. A single series could fill that.
Doable but honestly a pretty awful idea. Remember that they share a data bus, and have a low write endurance. About all its good for (aside from toying around with a silly sort of fun idea) is as a high speed spot for temporary data.
I set one up as a concept for temp storage of images being generated using a gaming engine that were being split and shoved out into multiple video streams. It worked, but there was no chance I’d rely on it (I even had a few of them die during the course of my goofing around).
Also you’ve got bus limits to deal with, so there is a limit to just how useful it can be in the first place. And for longer term storage, you’ve got a lot of risk for finicky behavior. So yeah, just not worth it, but technically doable.
With 24 usb dongles that each take 4 keys (or a dongle) and you’re ready to go!
We should download a data centre.
I can hear the ads music already from just reading this post “You wouldn’t download a data center “
It would be the cyberpunk thing to do.
Nah matey, fuck them.
I did a glance on nyaa and there are several releases already
When the world needed him most…He returned
Ghost in the torrents
I watched all of Invincible TV for 0¥, because I am not about to support sweatshops.
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