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Floppy RAID
2007-04-08, 10:45 PM #1
http://phoenix.cc.edu/MegaFloppy.htm

For those wanting extreme speed! :neckbeard:
gbk is 50 probably

MB IS FAT
2007-04-08, 10:57 PM #2
nice

depend your data's integrity on the operation of not one disc but every disc of a set

good thing floppies are reliable
2007-04-09, 5:57 PM #3
it was just for fun, nooblet.
gbk is 50 probably

MB IS FAT
2007-04-09, 5:58 PM #4
Originally posted by Mystic0:
nice

depend your data's integrity on the operation of not one disc but every disc of a set

good thing floppies are reliable


yes because this is otherwise a practical and usable solution
2007-04-09, 6:30 PM #5
That was a good laugh...
Not the article, but the conversation :D

2007-04-09, 7:03 PM #6
That's pretty funny... both the artice and the conversation.
>>untie shoes
2007-04-09, 9:13 PM #7
Quote:
yes because this is otherwise a practical and usable solution


mirroring, not striping, would be practical for me

i used to lose floppy data all the time
2007-04-09, 9:17 PM #8
Next up, punch card RAID arrays.
Stuff
2007-04-09, 10:38 PM #9
Originally posted by Mystic0:
mirroring, not striping, would be practical for me

i used to lose floppy data all the time


I don't think you understand what the word 'practical' means.
2007-04-09, 10:44 PM #10
practicaler
2007-04-11, 3:13 PM #11
i was surprised they couldn't do it on windows and apple came to the rescue. pretty cool.
Take that there and put it in here
2007-04-11, 3:44 PM #12
Carrol College, in Waukesha?
"Oh my god. That just made me want to start cutting" - Aglar
"Why do people from ALL OVER NORTH AMERICA keep asking about CATS?" - Steven, 4/1/2009
2007-04-11, 4:03 PM #13
Originally posted by stinkey diver:
i was surprised they couldn't do it on windows and apple came to the rescue. pretty cool.


It's not that surprising. Windows and the UNIX-like OSes treat block devices very differently.
2007-04-11, 4:41 PM #14
My magnets > those floppies
Back again
2007-04-11, 4:58 PM #15
I would like to have one of those just for the hell of it... just so people would be all "wtf" when they see it.
>>untie shoes
2007-04-11, 5:29 PM #16
Even cooler would be a scsi chain of raided floppy drives.
Take that there and put it in here

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