Re:Five-Disk Floppy Raid: 4MB of Blistering Fast Storage (2009)
by __lm__ on Thursday December 07, 2023 @01:44AM
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When Sun Microsystems was still existing they made a (quite funny) video putting 12 usb sticks in a ZFS pool with RAID: https://constantin.glez.de/2011/01/24/how-save-world-zfs-and...
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Re:Five-Disk Floppy Raid: 4MB of Blistering Fast Storage (2009)
by somat on Thursday December 07, 2023 @02:27AM
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I wanted to boot my home truenas box off usb flash, but I also know how flakey usb flash can be, so I use a pair of drives in a zfs mirror.
I would not recommend this setup, Any real drive would be better. I just hated wasting drive bays for the non-critical boot/system partition. In my defense despite burning through many cheap usb drives I have not lost the boot yet, however I do keep a new spare drive taped to the unit.
Re:Five-Disk Floppy Raid: 4MB of Blistering Fast Storage (2009)
by hdjdkdbdbe on Thursday December 07, 2023 @03:15AM
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I have the same setup for my router ... Openbsd 16-32gb if one dies I create a new one and set it up with ansible....
Re:Five-Disk Floppy Raid: 4MB of Blistering Fast Storage (2009)
by cylinder714 on Thursday December 07, 2023 @10:26AM
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From 2009, what I think was a famous video on which some kids in the UK put together a 6-gigabyte RAID with 24 256-gigabyte Samsung drives: https://youtu.be/26enkCzkJHQ
Re:Five-Disk Floppy Raid: 4MB of Blistering Fast Storage (2009)
by phil21 on Thursday December 07, 2023 @01:24PM
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I had grand plans to make a giant USB ZFS volume from tradeshow thumb drives in bulk.
It lasted a couple evenings while I bumped into apparently every Linux USB driver/chipset issue possible trying to drive a couple hundred drives via cheapo AliExpress USB hubs.
It was fun times, but even more useless than I originally thought it would be. It was amusing to get >1GBps for a minute or two across 256 crappy thumb drives though!