I'm thinking 49 cheap 2GB flash drives and RAID 0. USB 2 gets what, 480 Mb/s? That's plenty fast, and 98 gigs is enough to hold all of your non-media-library files.
In practice it doesn't get nearly that speed. And besides, for the price of all that you could get one of those new SSD's and drop it into an enclosure. This gives the added bonus of not requiring an extra power supply to run.
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I'm thinking 49 cheap 2GB flash drives and RAID 0. USB 2 gets what, 480 Mb/s? That's plenty fast, and 98 gigs is enough to hold all of your non-media-library files.
In practice it doesn't get nearly that speed. And besides, for the price of all that you could get one of those new SSD's and drop it into an enclosure. This gives the added bonus of not requiring an extra power supply to run.