power requirements of OSB flash drives
- From: ebenZEROONE@xxxxxxxxxxx (Hactar)
- Date: Sun, 20 Apr 2008 22:08:02 GMT
So I'm shopping for parts for an MP3-playing computer, to replace my
200-CD carousel (that just forgot all the titles to my CDs). I quickly
realized SSDs are crazy expensive, and provide performance I just don't
need. (I sleep in there, so silence is paramount; heat is important too,
as the case is fanless.) So I decided to go with thumb drives. One won't
cut it because of size and reliability, so I figured I'd get five 16 GiB
thumb drives and use software RAID 5 (? N drives + parity) to turn them
into a ~64 GiB volume.
(1) How to boot? Slap stuff on a CD, and do what LiveCDs do to have the
boot disk unmounted? What is that, anyhow? Use another thumb drive
and make sure it stays mounted ro?
(2) I was reading a user comment at newegg, and he said regarding a hub:
"If you plan to plug in anything that needs power from the usb port,
(...flash drive...) don't bother. This cant provide enough power to do
any of it." Now here, I've never had problems running a flash drive
from an unpowered hub. Then again, I've never tried to run five of
them. I realize they have to have _some_ power. So how much power
do flash drives use actually? 10 mW? I'm looking specifically at
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820208378
The technical information says only that it's "USB powered".
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-eben QebWenE01R@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx royalty.mine.nu:81
Drive nail here > < for new monitor.
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