RAIDs (Redundant Arrays of Inexpensive [sic] Disks) are considered pretty handy for a number of things. This is an example of productive and practical use of a RAID. Granted, this project does not have the archaic grandeur of a Floppy Disk RAID, but then again, the capacity and performance of this system are utterly superior to those of a Floppy Disk RAID. The following is meant as an instruction sheet of how to build a rock-hard USB stick RAID system and simultaneously transform from an ordinary nerd to a SUPER LINUX GURU.
Get your sticks together and go here.
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Began the day with a solid English breakfast, then a walk to the conference venue, heard ten paper presentations, did one myself, had dinner with colleagues, walked up the hill west of Kirkwall, logged a geocache, walked back to B&B. Phew!
Here, let me ruin your morning, just in case you hadn't already heard the story of this raid on the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints.
At one time, I worked in a place that used "Dell" desktop systems for all the employees' workstations. Given that anything important was supposed to be kept on the network servers to be backed up, there was a lot of wasted space on those machines' local hard drives.
I never tried this, but I considered experimenting with the following scenario:
1)Set up a shared directory on each workstation's disk.
2)Create a large empty file of the same size in each directory.
3)Mount each directory via mount.cifs and, treating the files as virtual hard drives, combine them into a RAID array.
It would probably perform about as well as the USB stick RAID does if it worked at all...but at least it'd be a way to put all the wasted space on the Windows™ systems to better use.