Totally Awesome But Useless Floppy RAID
May 21, 2009 by Rico Mossesgeld
Filed under Storage
To recap, RAID is basically a way of linking drives together, either to improve the disk read/write speed of a computer, provide a data backup that immediately kicks in upon failure, or a combination of both. And yes, most RAID setups involve the use of hard drives, with some enthusiasts opting to use solid-state drives.
But Daniel Blade Olson is on the fringe, creating his own RAID array on Mac OS X with five 3.5″ flopppy disk drives, five floppy disks, one generic USB hub, and one 1995 iMac G3. Obviously a useless achievement, since the total available space provided by …read more
