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basil122

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Hello,
I'm am looking to find a way to use a USB hub to scatter files between them, and plug in three USB's to access one drive. Is there a way to make it inaccessible without the other two USB's?
Think of it as a nuclear launch code, you need 3 keys to use one thing.
I want to do the same with the USB's.
Thanks
 
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I don't think this is available off the shelf.

But if your have a fantastic budget you could get one made.
 
Sabrewings said:
Some sort of software RAID would accomplish this. Not even RAID so much as a spanned volume.
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A software RAID 0 that is striped across all 3 drives will do this. On their own, none of the drives would be readable. Interesting idea. I kind of want to play with this idea.
 
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A hub won't do that - it treats all connected devices equally. They are all on at the same time. Smitbret's idea is interesting.
 
But if the drives are spanned then you wont be able to read the data unless all 3 drives are connected. If you use any kind of parity setup then connecting 2 of the drives will make the drives readable.
 
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AlienTech said:
But if the drives are spanned then you wont be able to read the data unless all 3 drives are connected. If you use any kind of parity setup then connecting 2 of the drives will make the drives readable.
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I thought that was the whole point, that all three USB drives had to be in place to work.
 
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