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Fun tutorial in December's APC Magazine on how to build two or more USB flash drives into a RAID container--pages 94-95.

Is it worth it? A RAID-0 with 2 drives was about 3 times faster than a single drive. RAID-5 also gave a significant speed boost.

Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
> Fun tutorial in December's APC Magazine on how to build two or more USB
> flash drives into a RAID container--pages 94-95.
>
> Is it worth it? A RAID-0 with 2 drives was about 3 times faster than a
> single drive. RAID-5 also gave a significant speed boost.

If flash drives are only good for 10,000 or 100,000 writes, how long
would they last in continuous use as a RAID device?

http://www.bress.net/blog/archives/1...rive-Last.html

http://www.corsairmemory.com/_faq/FA...r_leveling.pdf

Peter wrote:
> Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
>> Fun tutorial in December's APC Magazine on how to build two or more USB
>> flash drives into a RAID container--pages 94-95.
>>
>> Is it worth it? A RAID-0 with 2 drives was about 3 times faster than a
>> single drive. RAID-5 also gave a significant speed boost.
>
> If flash drives are only good for 10,000 or 100,000 writes, how long
> would they last in continuous use as a RAID device?
>
> http://www.bress.net/blog/archives/1...rive-Last.html
>
> http://www.corsairmemory.com/_faq/FA...r_leveling.pdf
>
Especially as software RAID repeatedly and frequently writes the
superblock to the same location of disk.

Cheers,

Cliff

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In <gid544$vq3$> Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
> Fun tutorial in December's APC Magazine on how to build two or more
> USB flash drives into a RAID container--pages 94-95.
>
> Is it worth it? A RAID-0 with 2 drives was about 3 times faster than a
> single drive. RAID-5 also gave a significant speed boost.

Flash drives? Back in my day we used floppy drives to build our RAIDs,
and we considered ourselves lucky!

http://ohlssonvox.8k.com/fdd_raid.htm

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