This guy (who happens to work for a company that makes USB floppy drives) has strung together 5 USB floppy drives to create a striped RAID array. My favorite quote:

Now I know this is now just a 4.22 MB drive (acutally it is 3.9MB of usable disk space when mounted). I also understand that carrying 5 USB floppy drives around is not exactly portable, but there is something special and amazing about the speed of this floppy cluster. It is really cool when you access the drives the way they flash each light and spin in no particular order that I can discern. It is of course faster than a standard single drive. I was able to transfer "DEVO Uncontrolable Urge.mp3" which is 3.6 MB in 32 seconds. Which is pretty good I think.

That's the kind of thing that makes me happy that the Internet was successful. Brilliant.

I think I found out what to do with all those 8 and 16MB SmartMedia cards we have laying around...