Can you put usb flash drives in raid?

[nonxcarbonx]

Sounds cheaper than an ssd.

 

[505090]

Should be able to implement a software solution with a little effort

write speeds would be horrible though

 

[sminlal]

You'd need a RAID controller that supports USB drives - that may be a tricky thing to find. Alternatively you could go for pure software RAID.

But USB flash drive transfer rates are abysmal, you'd have to put quite a few of them into a RAID set just to equal the transfer rate of a mechanical drive, let alone an SSD. Random I/O performance would be better, though.

 

[randomizer]

It would make a nice Readyboost drive but you can forget having good sequential read/writes.

 

[jsc]

Dec08 PCPlus (British magazine) had an article about how to do that. But because of the way that Windows treats USB drives, they had to do it in Linux. They also described how to make a cheap (and slow ) SSD from a CompactFlash card.