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USB Floppy Disk Drive RAID Array Under OS X

Posted by timothy on from the reaching-your-full-potential dept.

ohlssonvox writes "I believe this is the first USB Floppy Disk Drive RAID; I have never heard of any others. It was done using OS X. I would like to share this with the world. The world must know the power of USB FDD RAID!!! This is NOT an April fools joke, I just happen to be fool enough to make this on April fools."

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  1. Almost as good as PDA Beowulf by mnmn · · Score: 2, Funny


    Maybe this guy will build a wire structure that connects 10 floppies and handle. Then hold the structure and insert all floppies into properly aligned drives... Keep adding floppies to hopefully beat the speed of the IDE, then sell it.

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  2. Re:dock by Farley+Mullet · · Score: 2, Funny
    is that a windows media player icon in the dock?...hmmmm

    could be, they make windows media player for mac you know. . .

  3. Man, by jerrytcow · · Score: 4, Funny

    this guy's an idiot. Everyone knows that you should use RAID 5 (or 0+1) with something as unreliable as floppies.

  4. I'm speechless by thedbp · · Score: 4, Funny

    I think everyone's missing the real irony in that the iMac was the computer that dealt the first death blow to the floppy to begin with. Its taken Dell until this year to catch up w/ the down-with-floppies trend.

    But now it seems that Mr. Jobs and Mr. Dell were both wrong, as this user has proven that with a little imagination, even useless technology can be made into something ... okay, well, I can't stretch this. its still useless. But its cool. Gives me hope that people like this aren't milling about the street causing trouble.

  5. CDR-RAID??? by use_compress · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Perhaps a pseudo practical application would be doing the same thing except with CDRs. Considering the low price of media and burners and the unreliability of the media, doing a raid-5 with five separate CDR would allow for extremely fast, reliable and cheep storage.

  6. Whole new meaning to the I in RAID by rajpaul · · Score: 2, Interesting

    RAID (original meaning):
    Redundant
    Array of
    Inexpensive
    Disks

    This brings a whole new level to the "I" in RAID.

  7. Re:This is more like it. by Yarn · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Qps-Que used to make an LS120-type drive which could write 30-odd meg on a standard floppy. I've been trying to find one for ages :/

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  8. Re:This is more like it. by Yarn · · Score: 2, Funny

    yes that's the one. I have a LS120 in my desktop, it works fine, but doesn't seem to be able to cram more onto standard floppies.

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    -Yarn - Rio Karma: Excellent