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What’s the weirdest thing one can raid together these days? Maybe a bunch of raspberry pi picos?
Not that weird, but I've thought about RAIDing some USB thumb drives together. Might actually be a good way to get practice with your choice of RAID software for cheap, come to think of it.
https://fitzcarraldoblog.wordpress.com/2019/10/17/creating-a...
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That sounds like you copied the CD version via a floppy disk? It would have probably been faster to put your friends hard disk into your computer for a few minutes and copy directly from disk to disk?
remember laplink?
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> It would have probably been faster to put your friends hard disk into your computer for a few minutes and copy directly from disk to disk? Did ever your hard drive died because you shut down your computer cleanly, discharged static electricity, removed the disk without jolting it, and installed to another computer with the same care? I lost a couple of drives that way.
Remember the days before auto park? You would have to tell the drive to safely park the head before you could move it.
What’s the weirdest thing one can raid together these days? Maybe a bunch of raspberry pi picos?
Not that weird, but I've thought about RAIDing some USB thumb drives together. Might actually be a good way to get practice with your choice of RAID software for cheap, come to think of it.
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Not that weird, but I've thought about RAIDing some USB thumb drives together. Might actually be a good way to get practice with your choice of RAID software for cheap, come to think of it.
Virtual machines with many virtual disks would be much easier, or maybe I’m just lazy…
I clicked the link after reading just the first 4 words of the title. I didn't see the year it was written until I had closed the link - perhaps it was added after the initial submission. After reading the article through I was struck by the tone. It was a breath of fresh air - so optimistic and enthusiastic and not in the least bit self-important or unduly serious. It made me excited to read more! When I saw the '(2…
> Whatever happened to that infectious, enthusiastic incarnation of wired magazine? I assume it didn’t make money. I have fond memories of reading PC magazines front to back in the 90s but they’re all gone now. The audience has gone online, to a hundred different blogs or YouTube channels or whatever.
What’s the weirdest thing one can raid together these days? Maybe a bunch of raspberry pi picos?
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> It would have probably been faster to put your friends hard disk into your computer for a few minutes and copy directly from disk to disk? Did ever your hard drive died because you shut down your computer cleanly, discharged static electricity, removed the disk without jolting it, and installed to another computer with the same care? I lost a couple of drives that way.
Remember the days before auto park? You would have to tell the drive to safely park the head before you could move it.
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Remember the days before auto park? You would have to tell the drive to safely park the head before you could move it.
I was probably too young to remember these days, however probably a couple of my disks didn't have the feature. The disks I lost were 6GiB and 30GiB models, both were autoparking.
What’s the weirdest thing one can raid together these days? Maybe a bunch of raspberry pi picos?
I would say for sure LTO tape drives.
"With Seagate Direct Tape Access, users see the tape device as a logical drive letter from within Windows 95 Explorer, Windows 3.x File Manager, or any other Windows application, similar to a hard drive or CD-ROM. Files and directories can be moved to and from the tape device with drag-and-drop operations."
https://www.eetimes.com/seagate-software-ships-powerful-new-...
... from a time when new software was better than old software.