in early q2 of this year NVIDIA announced g-force g-assist a usb stick
that would enable a suite of features called g-force assisted gaming so ghost
play would use ai to analyze your gameplay style then if you have to get
up to get the door or something it would just keep playing as though it was you
neat boss boost could analyze boss fights and help you with the most
effective way to beat them you could use it one time per session and envy nurture
would even tell you when to eat and drink to stay nourished and hydrated
even going as far as to tell you when the drinks in your fridge were chilled
obviously of course that was an april fool's joke
but after much
clamoring from the community NVIDIA did
actually produce a g-force gtx styled usb drive in the
same kind of form as the g assist so it
looks just like a little miniature gtx
1080 isn't that adorable so NVIDIA produced only 1080 of them and
i see what you did there because 4k gaming right
and they sent us two of them so naturally our first question was
can they run traces and the answer of course was no that's
stupid they're usb drives they're 64 gig thumbsticks our second question then was
can we run them in sli
let's find out
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but how do we run sli obviously there's no you know sli
enable button in NVIDIA's control panel for a a gag limited run product
so we got to thinking well raid then would be the closest
thing to running multiple storage devices together for increased
performance but this raises other questions how do
we do that hardware raid cards are the best raid
experience but as you can probably imagine
nobody really makes a hardware raid card these are like 500 plus dollar devices
for putting thumb drives in them so no
we're gonna have to go back to our good old friend software raid something we've
actually used several times in the past including on our ill-fated raid 50
solid-state wanik server so for our first attempt
then things are going to be pretty simple we go ahead and plug in both drives
they're both formatted right out of the box
we open up the disk management software that's included with Windows look at
that they're both detected and then
stumbling block what should come up when we right click
on the drives is the option to convert them to dynamic disks
they need to be dynamic disks in order for us to run software raid i mean to be
clear i'm not complaining that Windows doesn't allow you to run a
raid on removable usb devices that's
a terrible terrible idea but that doesn't change the fact that i
want to do it so fortunately we found some unverified instructions on the
internet that should allow us to load a
really ancient 64-bit usb drive driver
and hopefully get our raid 0 game on
so the first step is that we need to disable secure boot including unloading
the pk keys then well we tried installing the old
unsigned usb driver to trick the system but that failed with an error about
driver signing so by shift rebooting
then disabling driver signature in the advanced startup options
we can force the driver to install using
device manager once that happened
both drives were detected as normal internal drives rather than usb drives
and the striped array option becomes available for us too
no come on
surely my random thing i found on the
internet with a random driver from 2006
should have worked but it didn't
well desperate times call for desperate
measures i took to googling it and found this
video from the 8-bit guy
whose channel intro says the ibook got
hold on a minute oh no
you can't do it on the pc but you can do it on a mac
here goes then we got our 2017 macbook pro
and we are going to do this because i am determined to run sli usb drives even if
i have to do it on a macbook
oh all right
i'm a little rusty on my mac operation i actually haven't touched this thing
since uh since i did my review of it um
right nothing on a mac is done by right clicking
right raid assistant striped raid zero
that's what we want no way
is it this easy is it gonna work okay
sli raid okay
this looks promising no
it works gtx sli raid
no freaking way
okay so let's fire up blackmagic disc speed test
change our target and bam
let's have a look at what these write speeds look like baby
okay uh
there you go they're not the fastest drives in the world but
114 megabytes per second on our sli raid
is actually faster than the 72 megabytes
per second that we got on a single drive
so does sli work
on the GeForce gtx g assist limited
edition usb 1080 drive
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