Comments on: Linkable USB Drives

By: wilem dude

wilem dude — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 17:46:00 +0000

hi, were i can find the price and somwane ave a link for me !! ty

By: Paul

Paul — Mon, 15 Jan 2007 00:02:19 +0000

Would I be right in thinking this is like a spanning RAID? The firmware in the devices would have to make sure files were not split over drives and they were as independent as possible, otherwise you lose one and the whole set is useless.

That said, a few months ago I created a striped RAID array using two USB drives and M$ dynamic partitions just to see if it could be done. This was inspired by the many “we can RAID floppy disks” projects that people are doing with OSX.

By: joe

joe — Fri, 12 Jan 2007 21:48:59 +0000

What world do y’all live in? This may have been interesting several years ago, but it is meaningless today.

The word is ubiquitous not ambiguous.

By: Steve

Steve — Fri, 12 Jan 2007 16:22:36 +0000

Uh, do you mean “USB drives are becoming UBIQUITOUS these days”? How can a USB drive be “ambiguous?” My kingdom for a good copy editor! (Must be that dang spell checker messing things up again.)

Seriously, though, nice article. I like the idea, and can’t believe someone hasn’t thought about linkable drives already.

By: Daniel

Daniel — Fri, 12 Jan 2007 15:30:56 +0000

This is very true and if you get past a certain size of portable hard drive and the price gets too high then just link smaller ones together to make a bigger hard drive, also great for back ups if one drive fails.