technabob.com - 5/22/2009
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Welcome to the latest edition of Why? Why not? , where we look at concepts and creations that exist for no real reason. Yes folks, I’m talking about products of democracy, of free will, and most of all of too much free time. Our forefathers lay down their lives so that we may spend ours ...
everyjoe.com - 5/22/2009
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To recap, RAID is basically a way of
linking drives together, either to improve the disk read/write...
speed of a computer, provide a data backup that immediately kicks in upon failure, or a combination of both. And yes, most RAID setups involve the use ...
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Totally Awesome But Useless Floppy RAID
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dvice.com - 5/23/2009
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dvice.com —
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 ...
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3.5-inch Floppy Disk RAID Array Is of Questionable Value
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3.5-inch Floppy Disk RAID Array Is of Questionable Value
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... 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.
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