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iPod Shuffle RAID
ricercar writes "So, what do you do when you and some friends are all getting iPod Shuffles? You make a RAID array out of them, of course! The original intent was to actually install OS X on the RAID and boot from that, but the OS X (Panther, 10.3.5) Installer wouldn't allow it."
The next step is to install linux on it.
Of course I have no idea what one can do with a linux iPod shuffle.
I don't think I could afford that without going to the ATM Machine and using my PIN Number to withdraw more money!
A feeling of having made the same mistake before: Deja Foobar
Don't blame me, I voted for Baltar.
Wait, anyone know of any flash hard drives for PCs/Macs that work via SATA? This would be interesting to do, almost instant boot.
I remember doing random file access on a DEC TU16 (9 track reel to reel tape drive) That was a trip. Slow, but cool to watch.
A feeling of having made the same mistake before: Deja Foobar
That is unfair. The Apple Store is sold out of them for weeks, and I can't buy one for my wife for Valentine's Day, and these guys have so many they are making a RAID with them.
:-)
Where is the justice?
And the best part is that every file request is randomized! You'll rediscover the data you already own and haven't worked with in years!
if one shuffle goes "corrupt" and music from one shuffle gets "recreated" on another? ;)
Site's been slashdotted...or the damn battery died again!
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Thanks to the RIAA, I want to avoid anything having to do with digital music players and "raids".
ok... I'm not usually a fan of moderation meta-humor, but this is a gem!
Whoever moderated this post "Redundant" is an evil, evil person...
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You catch enchiladas by picking them up behind the head and holding them underwater until they don't kick anymore -VeGas
But this guy ate his iPod shuffle.
sulli
RTFJ.
Now that we can do a RAID Array, I want to see someone turn it into a beowulf cluster. Imagine the sound processing power we could harness by chaining 400 iPods together! Music listening would never be the same again!
:) Either that or a really expensive geek tracking system
:)
Ooh, ooh! I know! Setup an Uber iPod (uPod) add in wireless (wiPod? because!). If we got normal iPods with built-in wireless in the future, we could have one hell of a distributed computing network
Useless tech implementations rock
Can you make a raid array out of me, Greg?
can I mod you "not hugged enough as a kid"?
"Nobody owns the fucking words man." - James Dean
Brain: Are you thinking what I'm thinking, Pinky?
Pinky: Yeah, Brain, but if we could get that many iPod Shuffles and set them up as a RAID device would we still be able to listen to music on them?
Brain: stares blankly at Pinky
Here I thought they were just really popular...
I once made a RAID array out of Chinese guys working abacuses. The clacking drove me nuts, but boy howdy was I glad when one caught fire and the rest kept my SQL server going without missing a beat.
Gamingmuseum.com: Give your 3D accelerator a rest.
Brain: Pinky, have you been reading Slashdot again?
So? You can make a raid array out of anything
Not out of expensive disks
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Oh wait.
Crap.
Information wants to be anthropomorphized.
The Shuffles kept returning the boot blocks in a random order!
Think, soon you might load multiple OS on the RAID and have it shuffle which one boots?
Damn it! Windows95 again!
Did we quit after the Germans Bombed Pearl harbor?
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You could create a striped RAID array, copy your sensitive encrypted information to it, and you each go on your way with one of the units.
Not until you reassemble and say, "Wonder Twin Powers, Activate!" will the data be accessible again (a la Ford Fairlane).
Could happen.
I now have this vision of 4 scruffy terrorists in a room, three iPods hooked in to the array and the 4th guy listening to some U2 track and going "what? What'd I do?"
-Charles
Learning HOW to think is more important than learning WHAT to think.
But wouldn't they want to know how to assemble an atomic bomb?
As a rabid Apple whore, I still have to wonder what the hell they were thinking when they developed this things: (Jobs) How can we make our iPods cheaper? (Engrs) Well, we've already taken out everything but the screen. (Jobs) Then take it out too! (Engrs) But how will they select their songs? (Jobs) Who cares? We'll have PR come up with a snappy name and tell everyone it's COOL. Those Cupertino boys, I swear.