USB 'Psuedo Floppy' - 8GB solid state raid in an old floppy case

Step 4 Benchmarks

At the request of one of the commenters, I decided to put up some benchmarks to get a rough idea of performance. Screenshots of each configuration are in the photos below. As usual, click on the little 'i' in the top left corner for a link to the full sized image.

In summary, here are the XBench scores for each configuration, along with some standards for comparison. I was quite surprised to see my external USB drive outperform the internal SATA disk.

39.47 - Western Digital 250GB IDE Drive in External USB Enclosure
35.13 - Hitachi 80GB SATA Internal
11.07 - Striped Raid (4x2GB USB Thumb Drive)
02.94 - PQi 2GB USB Thumb Drive attached to Hub
02.82 - PQi 2GB USB Thumb Drive attached to PC
02.79 - Mirrored Raid
02.68 - Concatenated RAID

Looks like striping is the way to go to make these things usable. Anyway, please feel free to comment and have fun!

Comments

[wupme]

Striping may bee faster, but if one stick is lost, all your Data is gone. There's no way to get it back. I would recomend using Raid 5. Enough speed, and if one stick ist lost, you can just exchange it, and wait for the raid to rebuild the Info of it.

[XOIIO]

If you use raid they will all register as one drive on any computer, right? Any chance of Os clashes? (windows to mac)

[shadycuz]

Very nice ible