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

[bobbarkee]

title says it all.

 

[USAFRet]

or 256gb of storage that cost me $40 and reads at 370MB/s (close to as fast as most people Sata 3 SSDs around 500)

Or, $77 for a Samsung 250GB SATA III drive.

 

[flashraid]

Can you please describe how did you do that and what type of usb flash drives did you use?

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.

 

[Lenrocks]

how did you accomplish this, my computer will not let me do this even when i have cleaned the usb drives, my only guess is that its because they are removable disks but that is my only guess, so if you could explain how you did it that would be great

 

[slavoicus]

how did you accomplish this, my computer will not let me do this even when i have cleaned the usb drives, my only guess is that its because they are removable disks but that is my only guess, so if you could explain how you did it that would be great

First BITFLIP your USB sticks (disassemble the sticks, find what type of chip is used, download the PROPER software for your specific chip from flashboot.ru - example: http://flashboot.ru/files/file/418/ ). This will rewrite the firmware and enable Windows to see your USB sticks as "local drive" instead of "removable". Next steps are easy: use disk management to create a software RAID array (managed by the operating system). You also can create multiple partitions on a single USB stick - like on a USB external HDD. Some info also here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ekKu6QVewaE Have fun ! Slavoicus

 

[Seshat]

how did you accomplish this, my computer will not let me do this even when i have cleaned the usb drives, my only guess is that its because they are removable disks but that is my only guess, so if you could explain how you did it that would be great

First BITFLIP your USB sticks (disassemble the sticks, find what type of chip is used, download the PROPER software for your specific chip from flashboot.ru - example: http://flashboot.ru/files/file/418/ ). This will rewrite the firmware and enable Windows to see your USB sticks as "local drive" instead of "removable". Next steps are easy: use disk management to create a software RAID array (managed by the operating system). You also can create multiple partitions on a single USB stick - like on a USB external HDD. Some info also here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ekKu6QVewaE Have fun ! Slavoicus

More complicated software-only method:

1. Use Disk Management to create vhd's, one on each USB drive you want to use.
2. Attach each virtual disk to your system using Disk Manager.
3a. Use Storage Spaces to create pools and spaces containing the virtual disks you created. You can set each space to span, stripe, mirror, or parity.
3b: Use Storage Spaces to create simple spaces containing only one virtual disk. This effectively creates one to one to one mappings of physical drive to virtual disk to drive letter. Use DrivePool, SnapRAID, FlexRAID, or whatever software you like on the exposed drive letters as you normally would with physical volumes.