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#1 2008-11-04 9:34 pm
- TheUltimateMacUser
- Flash Drive RAID Array Dude
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Flash Drive RAID Array
The idea struck me recently to see what sort of speed could be eek'd out of an array of USB flash drives. Mostly for smurf and giggles. So, i acquired 3 identical USB flash drives. In this case, i used 3 PNY 2 gig units.
I plugged all 3 in, and fired up Disk Utility.
I used XBench to clock the speed of the array. Here are the results of the test, with the 3 drives configured as shown above, and plugged into independent USB ports. Please note: using a USB hub will actually cause the array to be slower than the baseline test on just 1 disk.
For comparison, here is the baseline test on a single, freshly formatted drive:
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#2 2008-11-05 11:23 am
- macnuke
- just a plano guy
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- Registered: 2004-05-16
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Re: Flash Drive RAID Array
old trick...saw that one back when big flash drives were 256M.. lol yes, I said M.
but with flash drives getting bigger, it just may be viable one day.
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#3 2008-11-05 12:18 pm
- TheMouthOfSauron
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Re: Flash Drive RAID Array
There's also this.
"Infinity is not a number! Infinity simply describes the way in which this [function] does not exist."
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#4 2008-11-05 2:08 pm
- TheUltimateMacUser
- Flash Drive RAID Array Dude
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Re: Flash Drive RAID Array
TheMouthOfSauron wrote:
There's also this.
Shame i don't have more than one floppy drive. But, these flash drive doodads are, like, the new floppies, man!
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#5 2008-11-07 6:01 pm
- TheUltimateMacUser
- Flash Drive RAID Array Dude
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Re: Flash Drive RAID Array
I also wouldn't mind trying this with FireWire flash drives, but they are a bit too expensive. Anyone want to fund my research? :hint: :hint:
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#6 2008-12-01 12:38 pm
- dewetha
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Re: Flash Drive RAID Array
that is very interesting.
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