[NTLUG:Discuss] Drive becoming read-only after 40 minutes?!?

[Steve Baker]

Daniel Hauck wrote:
> Yeah me too!
>
> On the other hand, I have heard where some people had collected a bunch 
> of free or inexpensive USB flash drives and a bunch of free or 
> inexpensive USB (self-powered) hubs to create an amusingly large RAID.
>
> As a source of educational fun, perhaps one of the club's activities 
> might be centered around creating some sort of USB flash RAID device! 
> Many people can contribute to the task with a temporary loan of their 
> own gear for the hour or two that it might actually take.  You can take 
> pictures and document the process and immortalize the exercise in 
> geekdom.  Who knows, you might even get a mention on Slashdot! :)
>   
It would be cool to have a bunch of MP3 players and digital cameras too 
- there
are LOTS of things that can talk USB mass storage and a wild variety would
kinda add to the geekdom of the thing.


    Steve