What to do with a mess of floppy disk drives, an iMac straight out of 1995, and some free time? Daniel Blade Olson whipped up what’s almost certainly the world’s first (and only) RAID array using floppies.
Daniel took five USB floppy disk drives and through the magic of RAID managed to create one drive with 4.22MB of space (3.9MB usable space). Testing revealed pretty laughable speed as well, with a 3.6MB song taking about 36 seconds to transfer, but this kind of project clearly isn’t about performance. He plans to construct an even bigger array with, he claims, 150 FDDs, which can’t possibly be a good use of his energy. [Site via DVICE]
Chris
May 24, 2009 at 4:57 PM
Welcome to 2003, guys…
Report Permalinkmeinrosebud
May 24, 2009 at 5:18 PM
Huh, they will beat a path to your door… just to laugh at you!
Report Permalinkmichael
May 25, 2009 at 9:56 AM
3 and a half feet is a pretty big disk. I’m sure you’d get more than 4MB.
Report PermalinkEvil
May 25, 2009 at 1:32 PM
Congrats guys, you’re only 6 years late.
http://www.onemorething.nl/?p=showarticle&art_id=814
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http://www.sharkyforums.com/archive/index.php/t-207903.html
http://discuss.extremetech.com/forums/313412001/ShowPost.aspx
flavin
May 25, 2009 at 3:11 PM
ah, did you google at all? been DONE BEFORE! and better too… try researching a little before posting.
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