In this demo, 5 thumb drives are connected to a laptop via a hub to simulate a directly attached storage array . User data is configured to be distributed to the 5 drives such that a user data can be recovered from any 3 of the 5 drives. So this is indeed a poor man's RAID-6 array of 6GB effective storage capacity ( each thumb drive has 2GB ) with a cost of less than $50 dollars. And this array is easily portable!

An html file is being distributed to the 5 thumb drives via a simple copy operation through the Hydra File System (HyFS)

All the 5 drives are functioning normally and a web browser can read the html file through the HyFS.

One drive is removed, but the html file can still be successfully accessed.

Another drive is removed, the html file is still fully accessible.

What isn't shown here is all the drives are hot swappable. Coming soon: a video of demos.