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in early q2 of this year NVIDIA announced g-force g-assist a usb stick

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that would enable a suite of features called g-force assisted gaming so ghost

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play would use ai to analyze your gameplay style then if you have to get

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up to get the door or something it would just keep playing as though it was you

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neat boss boost could analyze boss fights and help you with the most

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effective way to beat them you could use it one time per session and envy nurture

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would even tell you when to eat and drink to stay nourished and hydrated

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even going as far as to tell you when the drinks in your fridge were chilled

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obviously of course that was an april fool's joke

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but after much

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clamoring from the community NVIDIA did

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actually produce a g-force gtx styled usb drive in the

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same kind of form as the g assist so it

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looks just like a little miniature gtx

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1080 isn't that adorable so NVIDIA produced only 1080 of them and

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i see what you did there because 4k gaming right

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and they sent us two of them so naturally our first question was

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can they run traces and the answer of course was no that's

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stupid they're usb drives they're 64 gig thumbsticks our second question then was

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can we run them in sli

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let's find out

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cooler masters 25th anniversary edition

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cosmos 2 features a unique dual curved tempered glass side panel

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check it out now at the link below

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but how do we run sli obviously there's no you know sli

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enable button in NVIDIA's control panel for a a gag limited run product

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so we got to thinking well raid then would be the closest

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thing to running multiple storage devices together for increased

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performance but this raises other questions how do

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we do that hardware raid cards are the best raid

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experience but as you can probably imagine

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nobody really makes a hardware raid card these are like 500 plus dollar devices

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for putting thumb drives in them so no

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we're gonna have to go back to our good old friend software raid something we've

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actually used several times in the past including on our ill-fated raid 50

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solid-state wanik server so for our first attempt

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then things are going to be pretty simple we go ahead and plug in both drives

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they're both formatted right out of the box

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we open up the disk management software that's included with Windows look at

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that they're both detected and then

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stumbling block what should come up when we right click

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on the drives is the option to convert them to dynamic disks

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they need to be dynamic disks in order for us to run software raid i mean to be

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clear i'm not complaining that Windows doesn't allow you to run a

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raid on removable usb devices that's

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a terrible terrible idea but that doesn't change the fact that i

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want to do it so fortunately we found some unverified instructions on the

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internet that should allow us to load a

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really ancient 64-bit usb drive driver

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and hopefully get our raid 0 game on

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so the first step is that we need to disable secure boot including unloading

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the pk keys then well we tried installing the old

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unsigned usb driver to trick the system but that failed with an error about

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driver signing so by shift rebooting

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then disabling driver signature in the advanced startup options

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we can force the driver to install using

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device manager once that happened

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both drives were detected as normal internal drives rather than usb drives

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and the striped array option becomes available for us too

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no come on

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surely my random thing i found on the

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internet with a random driver from 2006

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should have worked but it didn't

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well desperate times call for desperate

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measures i took to googling it and found this

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video from the 8-bit guy

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whose channel intro says the ibook got

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hold on a minute oh no

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you can't do it on the pc but you can do it on a mac

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here goes then we got our 2017 macbook pro

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and we are going to do this because i am determined to run sli usb drives even if

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i have to do it on a macbook

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oh all right

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i'm a little rusty on my mac operation i actually haven't touched this thing

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since uh since i did my review of it um

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right nothing on a mac is done by right clicking

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right raid assistant striped raid zero

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that's what we want no way

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is it this easy is it gonna work okay

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sli raid okay

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this looks promising no

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it works gtx sli raid

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no freaking way

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okay so let's fire up blackmagic disc speed test

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change our target and bam

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let's have a look at what these write speeds look like baby

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okay uh

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there you go they're not the fastest drives in the world but

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114 megabytes per second on our sli raid

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is actually faster than the 72 megabytes

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per second that we got on a single drive

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so does sli work

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on the GeForce gtx g assist limited

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edition usb 1080 drive

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not a real product thing the answer is

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