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- panique, on 10/12/2007, -5/+42True dat.
Too bad they weren't old school mac floppy drives so you could hit Eject in the Finder and have all the disks shoot out of the drives in sequence. Kinda like a floppy disk gattling gun.
In the old days, if you used the all-plastic Maxell disks in those drives they would come flying out of the machine and sail onto the floor. It was pretty funny. - jwolf, on 10/12/2007, -6/+34Either the site is being hosted on said floppy RAID, or there is a bit of a digg effect.
- fasel, on 10/12/2007, -4/+28nice!
reminds me of the ipod-shuffle RAID: http://www.wrightthisway.com/Articles/000154.html - mwebb1984, on 10/12/2007, -3/+24They should setup a 200,000-floppy disk RAID to serve as a backup to my 300GB external harddrive.
- nnonix, on 10/12/2007, -6/+26Many call themselves "geeks" but until you do something like this you haven't earned the title.
- kenfagerdotcom, on 10/12/2007, -3/+18Obsolete, obscure, and omnistupid. I love it.
- zoltan, on 10/12/2007, -8/+22although useless, very cool
- keek4jc, on 10/12/2007, -11/+24I love step 4 in the "How" part: "Gave up on Windows."
- burke, on 10/12/2007, -15/+28haha... That's awesome
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -3/+13Its so unneccessary that I must have one!
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -7/+17It's awesome to see what can be done w/ old technology... can't wait to see what they do next (zip drive, usb flash drives!)
- chopstickhero, on 10/12/2007, -1/+9i want to see this done with 5.25" floppies
- Tobey, on 10/12/2007, -1/+9Oh man! That brings back some memories. I used to use some of those Maxell disks.Those things could take an eye out when they came flying out! I would hit Command + E, and duck under my desk as quickly as I could.
- thbt, on 10/12/2007, -5/+12That's the dumbest thing I've ever seen. Dugg.
- Arramol, on 10/12/2007, -3/+9Somehow I don't think it was intended to be practical.
- detrate, on 10/12/2007, -4/+9I think it has something to do with the 78 and 43 mb video files they choose to host on the same server.
- paulc201, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Maximum floppage!
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+7Cool!
But I find amazing that people still don't think about making a couple of .torrent instead of directly hosting some hundreds MB sized files! - Ductapemaster, on 10/12/2007, -3/+7Ha thats awesome...wish I had 13 floppy drives just sitting around...NOT! Although I do have more than enough floppies to fill them...
- mrgreen4242, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5Redundant Array or Inexpensive Disks... read about it here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAID .
- Orangutan, on 10/12/2007, -3/+6this story is much more informative and well written than that one. plus, it uses more drives. adn doesnt ask for money at the end
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4Carroll College... Presbyterian Liberal Arts, I'm suprised they have an IT department that does stuff like this.
- cratedriver, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5What to solve today? World hunger or floppy disk duplication...?
- ErniePC12, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4Yea, I have seen this before. I did this with 2 512mb Pen Drives to hid some data from someone. It worked out well.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4i am so setting up a raid with all of the scsi zip drives we have hanging around at work from our very old powermacs...
- DD32, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4:::Maybe it is possible to do this in Windows only these people just didnt figure it out?:::
Not In XP.. but Windows 2003 has the Dynamic disk function.. maybe that would be able to do it? - regeya, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3> by Tux4
>'I love step 4 in the "How" part: "Gave up on Windows."'
> I agree, but why didn't they use Linux?
Mac OS X makes it insanely easy to set up software RAID. If you'll look at that screenshot, they're setting it all up in Disk Utility. It really is that easy.
It's possible under Linux, but not quite as simple. And for someone working on a casual (stupid) project, more trouble than it's worth, possibly. Not that setting up LVM2 is all that hard, and it'd be possible for a very lazy person to script adding all those drives to a VG, but dang almighty, it's just not worth it. :-) - TheSolomon, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Actually... I think you just explained it. *This* kind of stuff is what that school's IT department does; their entire budget for experimentation was spent on this. Har.
BTW, my fellow geeks and I thought of and implemented a floppy RAID about ten years ago, and we're talking several years before easy to configure RAID software. Fun to think about and implement, but not really impressive enough to post to the web. Heh.
Dorky and funny, but not diggworthy to me. Basically anything that can be done with a few clicks through a GUI that a fair number of people have thought of before doesn't qualify as diggworthy. - Petrarch1603, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3What does RAID stand for? What does it mean?
- Xiol, on 10/12/2007, -4/+7Someone's really hitting that red button here on this thread.
Why? I think this story is cool! A complete waste of time, but cool nevertheless. - interiot, on 10/12/2007, -4/+7The story is so OOOOLD, it predates digg by quite some time. For those that apparently missed it, the same idea (USB drive RAID) can be applied to just about any USB, so things like ipods (http://www.wrightthisway.com/Articles/000154.html ) and thumb drives (http://www.bigbruin.com/reviews05/article.php?item=thumbraid&file=1 ) work just as well.
- Timsher, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4Nice, made me chuckle too :)
- xdjyoshx, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2You can't convert removable media to a dynamic disk, which would be necessary for to create a software RAID Array. (WIN)
- jrbonewitz, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3Man I bet that thing was loud!
- Rouss, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Dugg. Just because its pointless yet awesome.
- Dave1234, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2@mrgreen4242
Redundant Array *OF* Inexpensive Disks. - SenyorDrew, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2new to me, and really cool
- panique, on 10/12/2007, -3/+5Yeah get me a RAID array of about 10 punched tape machines, then I'll be impressed.
- gsmithEIDW, on 10/12/2007, -6/+8If he'd said gave up on Unix/Linux/OSX people would just say he was "incompetent" or "lame" or some such... Maybe it is possible to do this in Windows only these people just didnt figure it out?
- lightningrod220, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3"It's amazing what bored students can do"?! Apparently, you've never heard of the "Darwin Awards"... some of the effort that goes into the stupid things that make it into the books is rediculous...
- Onibus, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3freakin awesome
doesn't serve any real-world purpose, but genuis regardless. - bab7880, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3Wow, I am at a loss for words
I can't wait to see Mega Zip 06 - hardran3, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3At least they found a use for floppy disks. I haven't seen one of those since I bought an iBook. They are up there with Laserdisc and AM radio these days.
- Tux42, on 10/12/2007, -3/+4'I love step 4 in the "How" part: "Gave up on Windows."'
I agree, but why didn't they use Linux? - Tobey, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3And your point??
Who cares if it's old to you. It's new to most of us. - barthosch, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1wrong again, that's "redundant array of "independent"" disks :P
- Tobey, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I know. It was a stupid joke about how slow floppy drives are. It seemed funny to me at the time!
Most FD drives are actually capable of transferring at 500KBp/s, but I've never seen one actually hit those kinds of speeds. - fogster, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1"Now it is cheaper and faster just to get a 32mb FlashDrive."
Unless, as the article explains, you have a ton of old floppy drives just lying around and want to amuse yourself. In that case, the 32MB FlashDrive really isn't at all useful, and buying it would be infinitely more expensive than using what you already had. - kickarse, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2That's an interesting waste of time...
- Determination, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2I was a pretty lucky visitor.
http://www.prntscrn.net/img.php?img=11337.png
Dugg for the DEAR GOD WHY factor. -
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