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iPod Shuffle RAID

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the because-you-can dept.

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."

18 of 324 comments (clear)

  1. RAID Array? by CrankyFool · · Score: 5, Funny

    I don't think I could afford that without going to the ATM Machine and using my PIN Number to withdraw more money!

    1. Re:RAID Array? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

      Maybe I'd get this if I RTFA'd the article...

  2. Awesome Hack! by ackthpt · · Score: 5, Funny
    This, however underscores the difference between geeks and non-geeks:
    "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!
    Among non-geeks such inspiration usually begins with acohol and ends with an entry in the Darwin Awards.
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  3. Injustice by DisasterDoctor · · Score: 5, Funny

    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? :-)

  4. The best feature by gUmbi · · Score: 5, Funny

    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!

  5. iApache by mushupork · · Score: 5, Funny

    Site's been slashdotted...or the damn battery died again!

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  6. Re:Linux by bonch · · Score: 5, Funny

    You could use it as a portable music player.

    Oh.

  7. Re:redundant redundant and again, redundant by ultramk · · Score: 5, Funny

    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...

    m-

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  8. Re:No one cares by MexicanMenace · · Score: 5, Funny

    Can you make a raid array out of me, Greg?

  9. Re:Spoiled kids these days... by operagost · · Score: 5, Funny

    Tape? Hmph! Back in my day, we used punch cards! I was the junior operator, so they made me shuffle them. My forearms looked like Popeye's by the time I got promoted to lead assistant over-junior peon. No to mention the ferocious paper cuts! But no one was faster, no siree. I got 30 bytes a second on the read I/Os. Writes were a little slower though, because I had to punch the holes with a dull pencil.

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  10. As seen on Pinky & The Brain by JLavezzo · · Score: 5, Funny

    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

  11. continues by JLavezzo · · Score: 5, Funny

    Brain: Pinky, have you been reading Slashdot again?

  12. Re:No one cares by jthayden · · Score: 5, Funny

    So? You can make a raid array out of anything

    Not out of expensive disks

  13. Re:Spoiled kids these days... by mrisaacs · · Score: 5, Funny

    You had punches? Back in my day we applied the charges to the core manually. One finger in the socket...timing was everything! What's left of my hair still stands on end...

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  14. It's obvious what their problem was ... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    The Shuffles kept returning the boot blocks in a random order!

  15. Re:Instead of OS X... by chill · · Score: 5, Funny

    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

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  16. Re:Instead of OS X... by natrius · · Score: 5, Funny

    But wouldn't they want to know how to assemble an atomic bomb?

  17. Re:Spoiled kids these days... by Further82 · · Score: 5, Funny

    You had a cell? Back in my day all matter and energy in the universe was compressed into a point smaller than those tiny transistors you punk kids use as a sorry excuse for a switch! You can imagine it was pretty tough to program in that cramped enviornment, infact, that thing you people have misnamed the Big Bang was actully Lepton slacking off, he spun left when he was supposed to spin right, the whole thing crashed, that bastard.