Weekend Project: Flash Memory Hard Drive

Take an old outdated hard drive and teach it new secret tricks by increasing it's capacity and speed.

Category:

Howto & Style

Tags:

• memory
• hard
• drive
• usb
• storage
• secret
• diy

[chanchiem]

I don't get it. You put in four flash drives inside a hard drive casing. What's so special about that? Why not save space and just use the 4 flash drives without the case?

[RealationGames]

@FastxFalling

But that's what the hub is for in the first place. You don't need to encase it in a hard drive case to make it possible.

But yeah, all projects aren't even supposed to be practical. I just thought that this would connect to SATA. That would've been something.

[FastxFalling]

@chanchiem most computes don't have the space for 4 extra flash drives

[BrandonsGFX]

This intro's annoying

[ophelius111]

@chanchiem Cause it looks cool and it's a lot harder to loose a larger clunkier hard drive than a small USB stick.

[robthatguyx]

@Level84 diddnt think of that

[Level84]

@robthatguyx not even close.... SSD's use 6gigabit SATA, this is using USB 2.0... the difference in read/write times is night and day.

[Level84]

This is kind of useless... First of all it is not faster... Yes flash memory can read/write faster but you are bottlenecked by USB technology. Assuming that is USB 2.0, it wouldn't even be able to read/write faster than a standard green HDD. A better trick would be creating a virtual RAM disk on your computer. Instead of spending that money of flash drives, spend $30 on an extra 8gb of RAM, turn that 8GB into a RAM disk, and enjoy insanely fast read/write speeds.

[TommyDDoom]

IM THE 3000TH LIKER IM WIN??

[deltafan909]

"organizized"

[890buba]

can u put these in a raid configuration to make them look like one drive? osx has a utility for this but haven't tried it.