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How to Make a Poor Man's RAID Drive

Hint: You'll need a lot of flash drives

By Rain Noe - September 9, 2015

in Tech | DIY

Have you been wanting to get a RAID drive for your personal computer, but aren’t willing to part with the cash? Have you been slowly amassing a pile of stolen flash drives from work to compensate for your unpaid overtime? If the answers to these questions are “Yes,” then we’ve got the solution for you.

The YouTuber known as The iBookGuy wanted to know if he could rig up a RAID drive using nothing more than a USB hub and a handful of flash drives. If you’ve thought about doing this yourself, have a look at the pluses and minuses of this set-up:

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And yes, I know he used a 2.0 hub rather than a 3.0. But look at this as a proof-of-concept.

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Thy Laxene

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Like this idea a lot. Make a nice little wooden enclosure for the setup and sit it on your desk.

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  Or 3D print one
  
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Brian Tucker

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Cool idea, will try it and see how it performs.

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Denis Garmash

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Its an old video, saw it before, but todays its easy to use usb3.0 cheap flash drives for that.

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