49-port powered USB hub

[Zephik]

http://www.crunchgear.com/2009/05/28...direct-tcrn.ch

[billygoat333]

I guess if you have 49 thumb drives laying around... lol thats just insane.

[Zephik]

I'm not going to lie, for the right price, I would totally buy it. lol

[billygoat333]

I'm not going to lie, for the right price, I would totally buy it. lol

funny thing is... I would too. have no real use for it, but hey, what the hell, it looks cool. haha.

[AntraxLife]

lol gonna stick 49 16Gb usb's in there and see your empire exspand ;P
would like one of those. you can make a really cool looking place for that in your pc( like on the top)

[nevermind1534]

I would buy it...if it wouldn't cost me $750

[altec]

Dang, if you used 64GB ones, that's quite a bit of space (Also over seven grand lol)! I haven't played around with jump drives much, but can you RAID, or JBOD them?

[x88x]

Dang, if you used 64GB ones, that's quite a bit of space (Also over seven grand lol)! I haven't played around with jump drives much, but can you RAID, or JBOD them?

You can, but since thumbdrives usually don't have write-balancing, it's generally not a good idea to use them for constant use. At that point, you'd be better off using SSDs. 64x64GB thumbdrives (assuming RAID0 or JBOD) comes to ~4TB at a ~$7400, whereas the 250GB OCZ Solid Series, which are nice and cheap at ~$630 each, equivalent capacity would come to ~$5000, and while not stellar SSDs, would almost definitely be faster/more stable than thumbdrives.

[altec]

You can, but since thumbdrives usually don't have write-balancing, it's generally not a good idea to use them for constant use. At that point, you'd be better off using SSDs. 64x64GB thumbdrives (assuming RAID0 or JBOD) comes to ~4TB at a ~$7400, whereas the 250GB OCZ Solid Series, which are nice and cheap at ~$630 each, equivalent capacity would come to ~$5000, and while not stellar SSDs, would almost definitely be faster/more stable than thumbdrives.

Thank you sir (Hope I did the Rep right)! Wish I had the cash to burn to setup something like that. Just for the novelty of it! Great conversation piece I'd imagine!

[Oneslowz28]

Well lets see. I have 6 external drives, 3 external dvd burners, iTouch cord, joystick, headphones, 3 single cf card readers, 2 printers, 9 jump drives, and a usb fan. That leaves 23 open for other stuff. HMMMM....