Shadow

USB FLOPPY DISK STRIPED
RAID UNDER OS X

Now I know this is now just
a 4.22 MB drive (acutally it is 3.9MB of usable disk space when mounted).
I also understand that carrying 5 USB floppy drives around is not exactly
portable, but there is something special and amazing about the speed of
this floppy cluster. It is really cool when you access the drives the
way they flash each light and spin in no particular order that I can discern.
It is of course faster than a standard single drive. I was able to transfer
"DEVO Uncontrolable Urge.mp3" which is 3.6 MB in 32 seconds. Which is
pretty good I think.

*******UPDATE*****

So I have not figured out how to
make some monstorous beowulf floppy…..yet, but I have now made a new FDD
RAID using Y-E DATA 2X speed
USB Floppy Drives . Now this thing is really SWEET! It is like going from
an AMC Gremlin to a Ferarri! It was able to transfer the same awesome DEVO
song in just 16 seconds! KICK
ASS!!!

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