RAID 5 init

[rkanters123]

@maxshortte1982 linux of course

[st3reo23]

WHAT is the point of this? :)

[ke4rit]

Yeah, bet the array doesn't last that long either.... USB drives are good for like 10,000 writes?

[imickey503]

Wow did this back in the day with OSX 10.2. Was Loads of fun!.

Course back in the day, the only way to get real speed was to have 3 PCI USB cards and have them all raided as as RAID stripe.  Got 4 MB a second, and learned that those flash drives Fail pretty fast. Best lesson ever...

[mptrax]

RAID 5 With pendrives !!! WOWWW !

[wsfghjk]

yep, real fake. then if you wake up you can buy such devices (it is really cheap) and try:

mdadm --create --verbose /dev/md0 --level=5 --raid-devices=5 /dev/sda1 /dev/sdb1 /dev/sdc1 /dev/sdd1 /dev/sde1

mdadm -As /dev/md0

that is all magic (in your words 'fake').

[beasy26062]

its all fake

[cheeches]

Yay YOU!

[wsfghjk]

who did not undestand what is this? yes, it is hub with 5 flash drives which are set as raid 5 device under linux. i used this to test array behaviour after one disk crashed (I simply took out flash drive). how do you test monitoring of raid arrays? are assembling them from read hdd/sdd drives? lucky you, I'm not so rich.

[beasy26062]

This is nothing but a usb dongle with a bunch of flash drives plugged in.. YOU FUCKIN NOOB!!

[emtildeath]

@beasy26062 I would say you are the NOOB that knows nothing about doing this setup using Linux. :-)

[beasy26062]

FAKE~

[emtildeath]

@beasy26062 Nothing fake about it at all. Have done this experiment myself. :-)

[MinecraftCountry]

If this is real that cool, but as far as the video shows you just have a hub with a bunch of flash drives plugged in being used as show by the indicator lights, theres no proof that it is in a raid configuration or anything. Until I see proof im gona say, fake.

[stromboldt]

That's awesome, even if it's only little flash drives... :)

[spamonkey8]

uploader commented it's usb 1.1, so it would take more than 45 minutes to completely fill the array with less than a DVD worth of data. but it's mad geek fun. I've seen raid-5 arrays of floppy disks! neeto.

[th0m4svu]

damn, must be slow as fuck if its still loading from usb2.0. if it was done in sata2/3 well... that'd be different.

[bradman5505]

nice

[wsfghjk]

no, this video was made when I had compaq evo n400c with USB1.1 ports only

[lapulapu12345]

is it connected in usb 2.0?

[maxshortte1982]

Are you using Windows or Linux?

[mikurej95]

Well now that USB 3.0 is out, get a few USB 3.0 Flash Drives and then put them in raid

[bmw2go11]

how did you do that?

[gustavsvendsen]

Thats great man, how big is the usb drives :?

[wsfghjk]

5x1GB, cca 4.75GB as raid5

[Mr12161969]

Thats Fucking Awesome HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA

[deluxedookie]

lol now someone gonna do this for storage

[Ewarzone2]

that is cool

[kaosmikee]

and i want to run them in a raid 5 config would the two WD 1TB drives cache lower to match the maxtor 8MB or if there would be any other decrease in performance by using these 3 HDD together? i have tried looking around to see if i can find the answer but can't seem to find any :( would be great if someone could give me a quick reply :)

[produKtNZ]

@kaosmikee Not exactly a quick reply but; Ideally you need to have identical drives in your raid 5 array. It's just a lot safer this way and theres no room for incompatibilities etc

[rysliv]

how would you do this

[windoes98se]

lol,wair wound i get one?

[windowshacker66]

you have a raid 5 with flash drives?? WTF

[wsfghjk]

yes. it is for testing purposes. i'm not using it as data storage.

[wsfghjk]

this is just for testing. i can simulate disk error very simple...

[brokeandbloging]

@wsfghjk can you test it with a game and see what the speed or all so can we @ home do this in windows 7 64 bit i be willing to go out and buy some stick for testing if you can help me get it working in windows box 

[wsfghjk]

@brokeandbloging this raid device is very slow. flash sticks are slow and it was not ment as storage. it is just for testing of error handling on raid devices.

[brokeandbloging]

@wsfghjk well i like try it for fun what will i need pm the info if you wish

[tox2ik]

*make win/nix* configure raid 10/6/5 on them*

2-4-6 of these usb pens and you have a solid hdd for a mediocre or tiny system. makes a perfect hard-drive for a pc to hide on a shelf. 500mhz pentium, m-atx mobo... nothing fancy, really. [Watch out for slow pens]

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erm... print some stats dude.

[ClonedThing]

lol

[leetware]

Its ok, but what about if the hub goes out or the single usb port that the hub is connected to ? This set up has too many single point of failures.

[ecotts]

Same applies to a normal server, what if your controller card fails? the same thing!

In fact i cant really see any more points of failure other than usb memory sticks can be written to allot fewer times than a standard hard drive.

[mygaffer]

What do you know about it? Anyway, he obviously isn't using this for mission critical anything.

[bunion4]

@leetware If the hub goes out you replace it. The data is fine. If one of the usb sticks goes out you replace it. The data is fine. If the usb port it is connected to goes out you plug it into another port or computer. The data is fine.

[kirkcam]

awsome

[ryutenchi]

that's pretty awesome^^

[mirez21]

dobreee :)))