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  • Which software can allow me to configure storage drives into RAID? (I need 0, 1 and 10)
  • And is it possible and/or safe to configure thumbdrives in RAIDs?

  • Which USB version should my thumbdrives use? USB 3.0? Or USB 3.1 Type C?

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-SerialAceTU1

 

 

 

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21 minutes ago, SerialAceTU1 said:
  • Which software can allow me to configure storage drives into RAID? (I need 0, 1 and 10)
  • And is it possible and/or safe to configure thumbdrives in RAIDs?

  • Which USB version should my thumbdrives use? USB 3.0? Or USB 3.1 Type C?

let me answer your question with another question

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to answer your question:

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1) dont know, never bothered to know since i never thought of doing it. maybe windows can do it in the disk management thingy

2) it is possible, it is as safe as any RAID configs `-`

3) any version, as long as they're connected i suppose

 

-sigh- feeling like I'm being too negative lately

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4 minutes ago, Moonzy said:

let me answer your question with another question

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1) dont know, never bothered to know since i never thought of doing it. maybe windows can do it in the disk management thingy

2) it is possible, it is as safe as any RAID configs `-`

3) any version, as long as they're connected i suppose

 

 

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You can

 

but not advisable really, unless you have a particularly niche and valid reason for needing it

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those thumbdrives like the Kingston Hyper drives are in fact running some form of hardware/firmware based RAID to get those speeds you see on a thumbdrive. It all in the memory controller inside.

 

yes it possible to run RAID on a bunch of thumbdrives but they all have to be of the same brand and model to get any benefit.

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9 hours ago, dragoon20005 said:

those thumbdrives like the Kingston Hyper drives are in fact running some form of hardware/firmware based RAID to get those speeds you see on a thumbdrive. It all in the memory controller inside.

 

yes it possible to run RAID on a bunch of thumbdrives but they all have to be of the same brand and model to get any benefit.

what about capacity?

also must be the same?

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18 minutes ago, SerialAceTU1 said:

what about capacity?

also must be the same?

yes

 

all the drive have to be the same capacity

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From My own personal experience with this, Windows wouldn't let me do it. Although technically it would have maybe if I had gone into the actual code on the flash drives and flipped a bit that says they are removable devices. I ended up giving up and making a volume on OS X just as a frustrated proof of concept. I would recommend finding a way to do it in a linux virtual machine and just maybe you could find a way to let the host OS get to the volume somehow with some tinkering.

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