Can I use multiple usb flash drives as storage?
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I don't have a hard drive, but I do have about 5 separate 32 GB flash drives. So my question is can I use a USB hub and multiple flash drives to increase the storage space, or does retropie only accept one storage device at a time?
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I don't think there is a supported way, however if you are not afraid of Linux console, you could achieve that with LVM.
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@Flipcrazy
I'm not sure if you would loose much speed with all the flash drive going through a USB hub but I think something could be doable.The Running ROMs from a USB drive guide is only for 1 USB flash drive and it has you put everything after /home/pi/RetroPie/ on 1 flash drive but what you'd need to do is just decide which systems you want on which flash drives. For example: let's say you put all your PSX games on the 1st flash drive and have the mount to /home/pi/RetroPie/roms/psx, then have all your MAME on the 2nd flash drive. Maybe have all the 8bit system ROMS on the 3rd and all 16bit system ROMs on the 4th!
It would be a pain to setup but it would be very possible!
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@Flipcrazy You can use as many as you want. Just follow my guide here
But beware this is not the officially supported way of doing it.
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