Hard disk drives can be linked one to another in RAID configuration offering better speed by faster reading and faster writing. The same algorithm should apply to a few USB flash drives that would be linked one to another, as Vicky Wei imagined it in the Memory Infinite concept. It’s pretty easy what she had designed. A male and a female connector that would link them together transforming it in a single USB drive that you access.

Another advantage of the new Memory Infinite concept is that flash drives are getting bigger and bigger and those old ones are not used anymore. With that concept you don’t need to buy a new one every time, but connect them one to another. As for disadvantages I would say that the main idea is how will a file bigger than one USB be copied on multiple USBs. Would it get archived and split? The other disadvantage would be power consumption. If you link to many they would need fuel to run.

From current USB2.0 specifications this is not yet achievable, but let’s hope USB3.0 will have it.

[via SciFi and Yanko]

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