Samsung SSD Awesomeness

lor77 · Post by **lor77** » Mon Mar 09, 2009 12:18 pm

What 24 SSD combined can do.
Starting 53 programs in 18 sec.
I only have to get one of these.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=96dWOEa4Djs

theycallmebruce · Post by **theycallmebruce** » Mon Mar 09, 2009 8:10 pm

Nobody watched this??

Hacktastic DIY spirit + corporate sponsorship = good times

Ch0z3n · Post by **Ch0z3n** » Tue Mar 10, 2009 6:24 am

I did, it was pretty awesome. Too bad the array itself would cost like $10,000. It could rewrite the entire array in 3 seconds, that is just silly.

SebRad · Post by **SebRad** » Tue Mar 10, 2009 8:46 am

I thought it was rather neat. Too bad that PC would cost in the region of Â£20,000! (about the same as a new small BMW!)
Why a PC show casing SSDs needed 2 HD4870x2 (4 way crossfire X) I don't know. Also mentioned in the blurb somewhere they had to take out one of the video cards as overloading the PCIe bus causing the RAID card to not be detected! I think the drives where spread over two RAID cards and the motherboard's SATA ports to get the maximum through put.
I'd guess that PC would spoil you, you'd get used to instant action, no matter how disk heavy and not want to go back. I think 4 SSDs in RAID 0 on "ordinary" quad core PC would give 95% the experience for 10% the price.

I am, of course, very jelous! I'd settle for 2 to 4 of the G.Skill Titan 256GB drives. Aparently it's more-or-less 2x128GB drives in RAID 0 inside the casing and performs much better than other cheap SSDs when under stress. In this case cheap is ~Â£500 each so I doubt I'll ever even have one never mind 4

It could rewrite the entire array in 3 seconds, that is just silly.

I think it was 2GB/sec (good HDD = 0.1GB/sec) in to 6TB, that's 3000 seconds. Think you lost GB vs TB somewhere, easy to do when dribling over such a mosterous machine

[I especially like the bit about copying a 700MB DVD rip faster than throwing the DVD out the Window

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Regards, Seb

Ch0z3n · Post by **Ch0z3n** » Tue Mar 10, 2009 9:14 am

Lol, good point. Also posting just after you wake up isn't very good for the math. Still, 3000s for a 6TB array isn't bat at all. Right now I am trying to justify buying 1 SSD, much less a 24 SSD array.

Mohan · Post by **Mohan** » Tue Mar 10, 2009 1:33 pm

Just spend a little more and get a Tera-RamSan stack. Much faster. Afterall, what's the point in having 53 programs opened so fast... just show me where the speed in real world helps (compared to a single SSD).

And: Why do they get "only" 2GB/s out of 24 of those? That's an average of 85MB/s per drive when some can deliver way more?

Emyr · Post by **Emyr** » Wed Mar 11, 2009 2:17 am

Mohan wrote:just show me where the speed in real world helps (compared to a single SSD).

Video munching.

flopper · Post by **flopper** » Thu Mar 12, 2009 1:22 am

http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/11/fusi ... -duo-ssds/

fits in your hand and its easier to plug in and go