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3.5-inch Floppy Disk RAID Array Is of Questionable Value
Just because you can do something doesn't mean you should. That didn't stop Daniel Blade Olson, who created a RAID array out of a series of floppy disk drives. Yes, he set up a redundant storage system on a format that hasn't been relevant in over a decade.
It's cool though, I guess. I mean, it can write a whopping 3.6MB in a mere 32 seconds! The future is here! But he's not done yet; he wants to create a 125 USB floppy disk drive array, which is too crazy for me to even think about.
By ghengisbob at 11:39 AM ON 05/22/09
What a brilliant retard!!!
He probably should have connected it to a pc so all his fellow Mac users don't have a conniption; not helping the stereotype.
By Angel Mass at 12:40 PM ON 05/22/09
Finally!
Ive waiting 20 years for this day to come!
By Great Power comes Great at 1:18 PM ON 05/22/09
I wanted to make a usb flash drive raid for about 4 years now. I first figured I would just use the 1 gb sticks but storage is going up you can use about 4 GB sticks now just as cheaply.
The most impressive thing is you remove 1 floppy disk and the data is destroyed. Maybe this is for the most personal of personal data you want to keep on your computer.
By Maj at 8:05 PM ON 05/22/09
The rate at which you can write to a floppy array actually increases with the number of discs added because of the amount of overhead required per write.
By PTRICKY at 12:33 AM ON 05/23/09
...what? you mean decreases?
By arun at 8:12 AM ON 05/23/09
That is such a great product on blogs
By Big Sur Real Estate at 5:10 PM ON 05/23/09
So much awesome happening here.
By IsoTek at 9:03 PM ON 05/24/09
Ghettotech baby!
By Steve at 2:43 AM ON 05/25/09
Macs suck
By fonzibear at 1:28 PM ON 05/29/09
man this is ooolld i read about someone doing this forever ago
By smith134 at 1:21 AM ON 06/03/09
I am really exciting to knew about this product. Is there any other product for 5-inch Floppy Disk. I have one 5-inch Floppy Disk and want to extract my important data from it.
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