Comment on I Built a RAID of Floppy Disks. Oh no.
Prove_your_argument@piefed.social 1 week ago
This is exactly as terrible as I figured it was gonna be.
34 floppy readers/floppies. 4 DOA. 13 usable in RAID.
Wish the guy got any good benchmark tool instead of just using mac system monitor. Finder seemed to think a file transfer was writing up to 1MB/s which sounds high to me even for 13 drives, but we won’t know until someone else does it.
Eldritch@piefed.world 1 week ago
Considering the vintage of the system. USB 1 caps out around 1Mb. So its more likely than you think. 13 drives at 78.7 Kbps would easily do that. And considering each floppy should be capable of 250Kbps it’s capable of much more.