Posted January 24, 2018 is their such a thing that lets you plug in multiple usb drives and makes it so you computer sees it as 1 big drive? it wouldn't be raiding them together it would just be some sort of controller that would put the data onto each drive and label it so it would know where to put it. the obvious limitation would large files that would be limited to the largest usb drive. but the controller could use different sized usb drives so all of the spare drives you have piled up over the years could finally be put to use. LOOK AT MY NEW FLAG DESIGNS FOR PA AND VOTE ON YOUR FAVORITE LOOK AT MY FIRST BATCH OF DESIGNS HERE 4690K @ 4.5GHz GTX 970 FTW MSI Z97 PC MATE Define R5 windowed Cooler Master Seidon 240m EVGA SuperNOVA 650 G1 Kingston 120gb SSD SanDisk 480Gb SSD Seagate 1Tb Hard drive Link to comment https://linustechtips.com/topic/889498-usb-drive-combiner/ Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Posted January 24, 2018 You can in macOS. Windows maybe, maybe not. The video puts them in RAID, but I'm sure you could use them as a JBOD. I have a blog! And a list of guides I've posted Link to comment https://linustechtips.com/topic/889498-usb-drive-combiner/#findComment-10973137 Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Posted January 24, 2018 off memory, linus tried this with the nvidia limited edition usb sticks, and its a thing thats hilareously hard to do on windows, but works on mac. linux ofcourse letting you do anything you want to your storage with varying levels of success. that said, doing this in software is not very plug & play, because you'd need to rebuild the array constantly, and doing this in hardware would be more expensive than a bigger USB drive. Link to comment https://linustechtips.com/topic/889498-usb-drive-combiner/#findComment-10973144 Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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