USB Flash Drive RAID0

[cbodenberger]

Set up a USB disk RAID0 in linux after about an hour poking around in my fstab and mdadm files trying to get it to mount. 16GB x 4 @ 250MBps read and 95MBps write on pretty slow drives. Awesome. Now I've proved it's possible and relatively effective I need to get some faster drives and run them on their own USB bus a piece. Probably need a desktop and a bunch of PCIe cards to do it. No idea what I would actually do with this. Any Ideas?

[Tedster]

Well done, but I don't really see how this can be useful.

[NeatSquidYT]

Well done, but I don't really see how this can be useful.

It's for the yolo

[gilm0re3]

It's for the yolo

My thoughts exactly.

 

[cbodenberger]

Not really something that can be useful I don't think as of now. It only works on my Linux install I just switched over to windows to see if it would pop up and no joy. Perhaps if I figured out a way to make it mobile and usable on multiple OS' but as of now "it's for the yolo"

[NeatSquidYT]

What speeds are you getting?

[gilm0re3]

-snip-

This just makes me feel all warm and fuzzy on the inside. Cuz, you know, just 4 thumb drives in a raid 0 array. No biggie.

[cbodenberger]

250MBps read and 95MBps Write. I'll hop on Linux in a bit to test individual drive speed. If I recall it's about 90MBps Read and 30MBps Write but I'll post screens of the benchmark.

[DildorTheDecent]

That's very cool. 

[cbodenberger]

It's also softraid and not Fakeraid or a hard raid fyi. Quick google search says a fake raid can make it be usable with different OS' and across systems but you have to have mobo support...

[cbodenberger]

Here are the screens When I recompiled the RAID it didn't read as fast as it did the first time. I'll have to figure it out later.

 

I know they are wide and might not be viewable from browser but if you DL them it should be zoomable