Ok, these people have a lot of time on their hands. They got a bunch of external USB floppy drives and created a RAID array for their Macs.
Check these links:
http://phoenix.cc.edu/MegaFloppy.htm
http://ohlssonvox.8k.com/fdd_raid.htm
Anyone still use floppy disks today? I have a big pile of them and occasionally I need to get info off an older disk. For that I have one external USB floppy drive that I can use to access these older disks.
The downside with the USB external disks is that they don't read the really old 800k or 720k floppies. For that I have to use an older Mac with a built in floppy.
Most of the info on my floppies have been copied over to hard disc and CD.
We work in the IT department of the college, and were inventorying equipment in the closet. We ran across a box of USB floppy drives that were just sitting there...looking very sad and lonely. We blew off the dust from them and decided to give them a second life. We also had to test the drives, and rather than waste the time to test each drive individually we thought it would just be easier to RAID them all together and test them all at once. So that's exactly what we did.
http://phoenix.cc.edu/MegaFloppy.htm
http://ohlssonvox.8k.com/fdd_raid.htm
Anyone still use floppy disks today? I have a big pile of them and occasionally I need to get info off an older disk. For that I have one external USB floppy drive that I can use to access these older disks.
The downside with the USB external disks is that they don't read the really old 800k or 720k floppies. For that I have to use an older Mac with a built in floppy.
Most of the info on my floppies have been copied over to hard disc and CD.
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