RAID from USB flash drives

I found here a bag with USB flash drives of different years of use. As usual, only the two most recent and largest sizes are in operation. The rest is here.

And the idea arose of making them RAID, for example, simply a “concatenated disk”, because in OSX this is done very simply. Ideas here at least, but it was interesting to try.



Sizes from 64 megs to 32 gigs.
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I bought such a device for twelve nipples - Satechi 12 Port USB Hub with Power Adapter & 2 Control Switches.



We stick in ...



And run Disk Utility. All flash drives, like, see each other.



We create a disk of the type “concatenated disk” with the name “Crazy RAID” and add flash drives there, formatting them in HPFS + for consistency.



We confirm ...



We are waiting for five minutes and ready.



The system is seen.



You can now copy something there.



Of course, the constructive use here is really zero, because all the flash drives are different and apart from combining them into one disk, it’s hard to do anything else in terms of RAID. The recording speed will be determined by the flash drive that is currently being recorded. With parallel reading, there may be acceleration.

But it looks like a lot!