This guy took 4 of these things, striped them and made a 3.9GB RAID Array out of them! Neat bit of hackery.
I ordered an iPod shuffle about a week ago but unfortunately Canada is a third world country to Apple and I won't see it for at least a month yet. Ugh... Still it's nice to see somebody doing something creative with them.
Update: I found an interesting article on Ars Technica that compares the performance of various flash drives on both Mac OS X and Windows. They even did the RAID trick on Mac OS X. This was in June last year. So while the above article might be the first to do it with iPod shuffles, it's been done before... In summary: reading is way faster than writing, big files are better than small files and not all drives are created equal. Be interesting to see where the iPod shuffle fits in.
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