Is there something that you can plug multiple USB drives to make 1 BIG one?

OK, if your like me (which almost everyone here is) you like to upgrade. Well, Before I used to have 3 USB flash drives, and now I have a 1GB. Just out of curiosity, is there a way you that you can have a docking station to plug multiple USB drive to make it one big drive? And not only for USB flash driver, but can you also do that with HDD's? Some one told me that RAID can do that with SATA HDD's and I found out that it just is a back up of all your data so if one drive lost data the other can recover it, which I don't want. I want to get 2 or more HDD's so I can make it 1 BIG HDD, in other words, 80GB + 80GB =160GB like 2 in 1. Catch my drift?

I'm not 100%, but I highly doubt it.

I want to patent that then. I be RICH! Bill Gates here I come!

I don't think you can do that to USB drives. And regarding RAID, there are many types of raid, one of which (Raid0) is what I think you're after, although there's no redundancy. I currently have a 200GB and 250GB drive combined to give me 380GB formatted. Read the RAID 101 for more info.

I don't think that that is posable if the data is split in 3 different pieces how would you put it back together. You would have to carry around that converter that you plug all the drives in.





sorry

Yeah, you make them each into dynamic disks and then do it by software in Windows XP.

can you imagine the cost? buy four 2 gig flash drives for roughly $100 a piece, plus whatever the docking station would cost. that would be over $500 for portable storage that's not portable. hurry up with that patent.

Oh oops. For some reason I was thinking he was talking about HDDs.. Geez...

I would draw up a diagram because I know exactly how it would look, but I discribe it for now,

a 3D rectangle with a USB male adapter on the top, than on each flat side a female adapter to plug 4 separate USB dives, 1 on each side. The female adapters would be on an angle to save space. That's my first idea.

My second Idea is that I have a hollow case that opens that there is a splitter that goes to 4 total and its like this http://www.shoplet.com/office/db/g2518058.html
in the case it will pop up on an angle when you push down on it you can get the drives in and out easily.

Of course there would have to be some integrated circuitry.

Couldn't you make a folder with shorts cuts into the others drives. It might be a little ghetto, but it might work...