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3.5-inch floppy disk raid: why? why not?
technabob —
... array.
So what can his army of floppy disks do? Store 4.22 MB of data, that’s what. It can also transfer a 3.6 MB file in 32 seconds. “Turbo lightning speed” indeed. For his next project - I swear this is still all true - Olson has totally left the boundaries of sanity and wants to create a 125 USB floppy disk drive array. My god. The drives will probably fill up his room, and will most likely have a total capacity less than 256 MB.
[via Every Joe] ...
3.5-inch Floppy Disk RAID Array Is of Questionable Value
DVICE Atom Feed —
... 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.
EveryJoe via Technabob
Floppy RAID Doesn’t Manage To Make Floppy Disks Useful Again
OhGizmo! —
... a lot of down time. In an effort to make 3.5″ floppies relevant again, Daniel made himself a RAID array out of 5 drives and a USB hub. The array has a usable capacity of about 4 mb, and is able to fill itself in just over 30 seconds. That’s like, uh, 0.13 mbps! Wow!
For his next project, Daniel plans to make a 125 disk array with a capacity of something like 256 mb. I guess he’s keeping ‘em out of a landfill, so that’s a good thing.
VIA [ Every Joe ]
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Five-Disk Floppy RAID: 4MB of Blistering Fast Storage
Wired: Gadget Lab —
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