Got 2 64gb USBs, time to Linus Tech Tips this bitch. WHOS READY FOR 128gb USB RAID!!

Can I have one?

Can I have the other one?

@ewpratten nope

@gitpush maybe

Can I format one so it has a ton of 512 byte partitions?

@ewpratten don't make me start blindly threatening you online.

Can i ask what the point of this is? I see more problems than reasons here

64 GB pens are cheap now...
I have a u3 with 64gb... Wanted to buy a few 8gb now and can't find for a good price lol.
Still the store I buy stuff doesn't keep stock for long so I always get good prices for recent equipment.
Btw if you get a few pens together and join them as one drive you multiply the speed for the number of drives... (cant remember how to do it but love to watch videos about that stuff). If you get 4 64gb usb3 HD u3 in 4 USB 3 you can get spreeds higher then ssds

You can also get a cheap back up system for cheap this way

@ewpratten I got another one.

I prefer 64 GB RAID1, and I have a good reason, since my 64 GB RAID1 plugged into my Raspberry Pi was once a 32 GB RAID1 and one of the two 32 GB sticks failed.

So I got myself two 64 GB sticks so I would fix my array and double its size.

@hyperlisk can I haz?

Seriously speaking now, what use will it bring and how do you do it, can you post a photo of it and if you followed a guide can you share the link, I'm curious to know how it happens

@gitpush i know usb 3.0 can reach the speeds of a ssd so I'm guessing that's the idea behind it. I know usb drives are cheap so I'm guessing it's a way to make a cheap ssd. I'm just seeing alot of disadvantages over just buying a ssd like more chances for a usb to burn out and losing data. Granted that's only for raid 0 like is said being used

@PerfectAsshole but at the end they are an external IO why would someone need that compared to an SSD inside a laptop/PC.
And what advantage it has over having a dedicated storage other than saving money

@gitpush yeah that's why i asked that eariler i see alot of disadvanages the only thing i can see is saving money as the advantage. With using it as a raid 0 all i see it safe for is a build cache which its 10x faster to use ramdisks even over ssds. Laptop wise it makes no sense at all cause it would add a masive power drain along with the pita of bringing all the extra crap around. On a desktop it would make alittle sense cause if you go to alot of tech shows they give usb drives away at those things. Which pretty much can give you free ssd if you play it safe with raid 5 with a standby. That being said the extra risk makes no sense to me being that i can buy a good ssd with a warrenty for around $60 and have less parts that can break

@PerfectAsshole point clear, thanks man 😀

@gitpush no problem. I'm still confused on the reasoning of using it now days myself. The idea was first started when ssds cost a arm and a leg and were unstable. Neither one of those are true anymore.

UNIVERSAL SERIAL BUSES?

@PerfectAsshole if you watch the video that Linus posted about it, windows disk manager can actually do it. Only Mac machines can put usb's into RAID (so in assuming it'll work with Linux?? I do have a Mac VM) this post was meant to be a joke because I don't think I have any real use for a 192gb raid of USB'S