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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."

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  1. Imagine a Beowulf cluster! by Trolling4Columbine · · Score: 0, Troll

    Sorry... but it's not entirely off the mark this time!

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  2. (Whistle blow... flag down) by EvilTwinSkippy · · Score: 1, Troll
    We have unnecissary geekness, and roughing a consumer product. iPods are basically external firewire drives, the hard part has alreadybeen engineered for you.

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