Making USB RAID, Is It Possible?

[Muhlis]

Hi,

 

Alert: Maybe what I'll talk about is, will be a bit ridiculous.

 

 

A few months ago, I saw The 8-Bit Guy's RAID USB video, he basically uses several USB drives and tucked them into his Mac, and he software RAIDing it.

 

I have a Sandisk 3.0 USB (64 GB), so I bought another one (I bought it for multi-purpose) and then tried it with Windows 10's Storage Space. As you expect, it didn't recognize it as a RAIDable drive, and it didn't work.

 

So is there any way to make RAID of USB really, or it just applies to Mac OS? Any suggestions, thoughts will be appreciated.

 

Thanks.

[Electronics Wizardy]

Linux can do software raid on usb drives.

 

But there is a reason why windows doesn't let you do this, its a bad idea. USB sticks are slow and unreliable.

[porina]

I don't know of any easy way unless you do it at software level. Is there any practical reason for doing this, or is it just for fun?

 

For example, if you use y-cruncher doing a test that is bigger than your physical ram, it can use multiple swap drives as this is far faster than allowing the OS to manage it. Each drive could be set as its own mini-swap and used in parallel.

[LogicalDrm]

-> Moved to Storage Solutions

[Slayerking92]

 

[Guest willies leg]

Just because you can doesn't mean you should, and if you do, I wouldn't trust it. USB thumb drives aren't too reliable. Use the same money to buy an SSD or hard drive.