can i set up 2 usb 3.0 flash drives in raid on windows 7?

[bobbarkee]

title says it all.

 

[soldier44]

Google is your friend if you can't get the answer here.

 

[USAFRet]

Oh my, why would you consider doing this?

 

[johnnyb105]

Oh man wouldn't that be super super slow all that effort for????

 

[USAFRet]

Can you? Maybe.
But why? And what RAID type are you thinking of?

 

[bobbarkee]

Can you? Maybe.
But why? And what RAID type are you thinking of?

honestly im not a pro but ive seen people do it on a mac and the speeds were pretty good and you can make a nice large drive because i have a bunch of them.

 

[Deleted member 217926]

Seriously going to have to try this now. 😀

Lets see, one in my card reader, one in my phone, one in my camera and maybe another in an old phone. 4 way RAID 0 here I come! Ohhh yeah the printer will take one too. One more device and I can do it with 6 cards! :lol:

 

[Deleted member 217926]

Finding firmware will be fun.

 

[USAFRet]

Seriously going to have to try this now. 😀

Lets see, one in my card reader, one in my phone, one in my camera and maybe another in an old phone. 4 way RAID 0 here I come! Ohhh yeah the printer will take one too. One more device and I can do it with 6 cards! :lol:

USB ports and flash drives - Between my monitor (4), main PC (6), printers (2), TV (1), Laptop 1 (3), Laptop 2 (4).....Not counting the phone/tablet/kindle
I'm looking at lightspeed!

No one burp, or all is lost.

 

[bobbarkee]

Finding firmware will be fun.

i have 4 64gig usb 3.0 drives so making them into one 256gb drive would be cool to have. i seen a guy do it on a mac and it would write separate parts to each drive at the same time making it effectively 4 times faster than one usb 3.0 drive.

 

[johnnyb105]

Lol

 

[Deleted member 217926]

You got a link to that? I'd love to see what firmware he's using. Hell it can be hard enough to setup a desktop RAID.

 

[bobbarkee]

You got a link to that? I'd love to see what firmware he's using. Hell it can be hard enough to setup a desktop RAID.

actually it was usb 2.0s that he was using. but im trying with 3.0 which should get much better speeds.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dougISKs2vQ

 

[USAFRet]

You got a link to that? I'd love to see what firmware he's using. Hell it can be hard enough to setup a desktop RAID.

actually it was usb 2.0s that he was using. but im trying with 3.0 which should get much better speeds.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dougISKs2vQ

Yeah, OK.
Read speed? Not much different, no matter how many.
Write speed? After 2, not much different.

What happens when one of those cheap USB sticks dies?

Can you do it? Yes.
It is actually 'faster' than any of a number of other solutions (like a regular SSD)....no.

 

[Deleted member 217926]

That's crazy. An youtube video that is actually informative. I'm not sure Windows will let you do that but don't quote me on that. It's still basically useless for anything other than being able to say "I did that" but pretty cool none the less.

 

[bobbarkee]

You got a link to that? I'd love to see what firmware he's using. Hell it can be hard enough to setup a desktop RAID.

actually it was usb 2.0s that he was using. but im trying with 3.0 which should get much better speeds.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dougISKs2vQ

Yeah, OK.
Read speed? Not much different, no matter how many.
Write speed? After 2, not much different.

What happens when one of those cheap USB sticks dies?

Can you do it? Yes.
It is actually 'faster' than any of a number of other solutions (like a regular SSD)....no.

all true points but im considering it because i have 4 good quality drives on hand already. and wouldnt speed be better with 3.0 and all plugged directly into the motherboard rather than a hub.

 

[USAFRet]

You got a link to that? I'd love to see what firmware he's using. Hell it can be hard enough to setup a desktop RAID.

actually it was usb 2.0s that he was using. but im trying with 3.0 which should get much better speeds.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dougISKs2vQ

Yeah, OK.
Read speed? Not much different, no matter how many.
Write speed? After 2, not much different.

What happens when one of those cheap USB sticks dies?

Can you do it? Yes.
It is actually 'faster' than any of a number of other solutions (like a regular SSD)....no.

all true points but im considering it because i have 4 good quality drives on hand already. and wouldnt speed be better with 3.0 and all plugged directly into the motherboard rather than a hub.

Well, let's consider -
What size drives are we talking about?
What make/model?
What might you use this for?

 

[bobbarkee]

You got a link to that? I'd love to see what firmware he's using. Hell it can be hard enough to setup a desktop RAID.

actually it was usb 2.0s that he was using. but im trying with 3.0 which should get much better speeds.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dougISKs2vQ

Yeah, OK.
Read speed? Not much different, no matter how many.
Write speed? After 2, not much different.

What happens when one of those cheap USB sticks dies?

Can you do it? Yes.
It is actually 'faster' than any of a number of other solutions (like a regular SSD)....no.

all true points but im considering it because i have 4 good quality drives on hand already. and wouldnt speed be better with 3.0 and all plugged directly into the motherboard rather than a hub.

Well, let's consider -
What size drives are we talking about?
What make/model?
What might you use this for?

http://www.sandisk.com/products/usb/drives/ultra3/ these are the drives
they are the 64GB
use them just for general storage. plug them in once and leave them.
im just thinking i may get a decent speed boost doing this with 4 usb 3.0 directly to the motherboard.

 

[USAFRet]

'decent speed boost', for what?
Even from the linked video....read speeds don't really change much.
Write speed? Some, but how often are you writing large files to that?

 

[bobbarkee]

'decent speed boost', for what?
Even from the linked video....read speeds don't really change much.
Write speed? Some, but how often are you writing large files to that?

im thinking on 3.0 and not using a hub itll have much better results. read and write. dont you think?

 

[USAFRet]

'decent speed boost', for what?
Even from the linked video....read speeds don't really change much.
Write speed? Some, but how often are you writing large files to that?

im thinking on 3.0 and not using a hub itll have much better results. read and write. dont you think?

No. My question is, what would you use a fragile multi-USB RAID 0 for?
Sure, it may be a bit faster than a single USB stick. But why bother?

Write speeds may be marginally faster, but if a single USB stick dies, or gets lost....all is lost.
What are you actually wanting to use this for?

 

[bobbarkee]

'decent speed boost', for what?
Even from the linked video....read speeds don't really change much.
Write speed? Some, but how often are you writing large files to that?

im thinking on 3.0 and not using a hub itll have much better results. read and write. dont you think?

No. My question is, what would you use a fragile multi-USB RAID 0 for?
Sure, it may be a bit faster than a single USB stick. But why bother?

Write speeds may be marginally faster, but if a single USB stick dies, or gets lost....all is lost.
What are you actually wanting to use this for?

no real reason. just to try and do something different. i dont have any sensitive data so i dont care if something corrupts. i just wanna know if i can and if so how.

 

[USAFRet]

Well...from your linked video, apparently it is relatively easy in the Apple world.
In Windows 7? No idea.

 

[bobbarkee]

Well...from your linked video, apparently it is relatively easy in the Apple world.
In Windows 7? No idea.

alright. thanks for all your guys help

 

[mistawankas]

Because no one answered this ancient thread. As well with how many completely ignorant people posted replies not bothering to even attempt to show understanding only attempting childish jokes and mindless replies. I will and can confirm you can raid USB 3.0 drives on w8 onward.

The speeds are not "just a bit faster". The 3.0 usb drives add a huge increase, almost adding their own individual drive worth of speed to the raid. 1 usb 3.0 I have reads at 100MB/s according to crystaldisk, 2 was 190, 3 290, 4 380. For 256gb of storage that cost me $40 and reads at 370MB/s (close to as fast as most people Sata 3 SSDs around 500) what is the issue here people? Write speeds are fast enough as well. Faster than platter drives but about half ssd.

I would wager that the onboard usb 3.0 could go all the way to the 5 gigabits max if you had enough ports. At 10USD a 64GB drive I am tempted to try.

The issue with the videos other people posted are that they are on ONE 2.0 port which gets maxed very easily.

Seriously here.

If you have no answer or no knowledge besides showing ignorance, keep quite. I don't care at all I resurrected the thread. This needed to be fixed for future searches.