Thumb drive trees
What if you could have a way of turning all those countless little USB thumb drives into a mass, useful storage device?
I’m imagining a wire, similar to fairy lights or a Christmas tree lights, that have a number of USB ports dangling off it. You simply stick a thumb drive into each one and add as you gain more. This way you build a bigger storage device. If you run out of ports, you just add another wire to a spare port.
The downside is you’ll end up with a big bunch of wires, but perhaps, with clever design, it can be pretty and tasteful – and a low cost backup device.
Cool idee, maar nie so prakties nie. Solid State Drives neig om hul data oor tyd te verloor, want dis effektief ‘n klomp elektrone wat in hokkies gecapture is – en elektrone laaik nie van om vasgehou te word nie. Daar’s ‘n max aantal reads en writes voor ‘n flash drive vir altyd nutteloos is. Magnetiese plate seems to be the way to go. (Veral ook omdat dit aansienlik vinniger data transfer as die meeste solid state drives.)
Bly om te sien die vonk vonk weer
Firewire essentially does this — you plug in a new drive by extending the chain. Doing a USB hub as a long wire should be feasible, but isn’t it easier and neater to house the thumb drives in a USB hub?
But I’m thinking of creating collective storage space out of junk thumbdrives. Isn’t that different to USB hubs?