Mar 10 2009What If....You RAIDED 24 SSDs Together?

Oh wow 6 TB!

Amateurs...

FIRST!

@2

FAIL!

Why is that good?

As impressive as that is, it's not very impressive

ǝʌıssǝɹdɯı ʎɹǝʌ ʇou s,ʇı 'sı ʇɐɥʇ sɐ ǝʌıssǝɹdɯı sɐ

That guy looked like he has Mobius Syndrome

Oh wow that amazing. That's like... 1,500,000 songs! X_X

That is pretty incredible. In ten years this will be available at Wal-Mart...AND be out of date.

ǝʌıssǝɹdɯı ʎɹǝʌ ʇou s,ʇı 'sı ʇɐɥʇ sɐ ǝʌıssǝɹdɯı sɐ
evisserpmi yrev ton s'ti ,si taht sa evisserpmi sa

ɐs ıɯdɹǝssıʌǝ ɐs ʇɥɐʇ ıs' ıʇ,s uoʇ ʌǝɹʎ ıɯdɹǝssıʌǝ
As impressive as that is, it's not very impressive

Sorry naas, I was bored.

@10 That's ok, it's better than what I did.

That's pretty sweet, but wouldn't RAM size/speed play a huge role as well? Surely you can't make a computer blazingly fast just by having a nice hard drive.

Ram size and speed is going to play a role but typically the problem has always been ram is substantially faster than a physically moving hard drive so it created bottle necks. So, once the hard drives can keep up with the ram you gain a substantial amount of speed that was already present and simply being bottlenecked by one slow component.

Also, just to share... I'm having a massive nicotine w/d fit right now and I'm stuck for another 25 minutes.

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BAH!

If this was near me I go rob them ....

Okay, so when Microsoft says that the new Windows is really great for multitasking, THIS is the kind of system they have in mind.

ohhh That's how you get Microsoft Office not to crash!

I dreamed about this once. I can't believe it's possible.

think of how fast the firstards could refresh geekologie so they can get first!

The possibilities are endless!

wow its so fast and powerful...but will it get you laid?

think about that....

bendizle, no, i might not get you laid. but, think of all the porn you could store and start up in point nothing of a second

That was funny #17

@21,

You're right, you're not going to get bendizle laid, let alone yourself.

What a typo! Zing!

It's not an advertisement, it's just a bit of fun some guy called cr3 over at b3ta made whilst frigging around with some drives they had on test.

Impressive stuff, though.

Also: #1 misses he point entirely and also neglects to mention the fact that solid-state drives have a tiny capacity compared to conventional ones. Have a "BUHHHRRRRR".

WANT

i'm on my knees sobbing uncontrollably. i just, i just want this... so... so badly.

@8 its more like 1,440,000 songs

Personally I don't think its that cool, how about going past 100 TB?
Now that would be impressive.

I seriously think they just sold me on buying a ssd for my laptop.

HOLY FCUCKING SHIT! Me want!

FAKE!!!!

This is a complete photoshop job. You can tell its a fake because the shadow's are all wrong.

This is exactly like that scene in the movie Never Back Down where Max went to buy a car with his dad, and the only one that didn't have broken windows as a crappy old camaro that turned out to be pretty cool.

FAKE!!!!

This is a complete photoshop job. You can tell its a fake because the shadow's are all wrong.

This is exactly like that scene in the movie Always Go Up where Sam got a new ipod that was organically produced through bioengineering. The ipod was tripping on acid then flew around the room at 2.0 gb/second.

My question is - why RAID the drives together? You'd figure that all of the windows components are on one drive, right? Unless they are launching one application from each drive or something, which would mean you can read more at once.. But other than that, I'm missing why having more than one SSHD chained together would make anything run faster, besides from the obvious transferring of data between the drives.

Any ideas?

I wants one phleazzeeeee!
also, does this just make the blue screen of death appear faster?

Anyone else notice that an LG optical drive was chosen instead of a Samsung? Even Samsung thinks their dvd drives suck.

That's Cr3 with the queer hair from www.b3ta.com/talk

Hey sirrix the whole idea of the raid in this configuration is the information on the drive is layers across all the drives. That is what he talking about with the "striping"... check out
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAID_0#RAID_0
Basically you split the data so when you go to retrieve it each drive can seek the data you want at the same time (in parallel) and you don't get stuck waiting for a single drive to read the data sequentially.
Example...
You have a drive with "12345" on it...
In a single drive scenario when a program asks for the data the hard drive seeks to the data sends back "1", seeks and sends back "2", seeks and sends back "3" etc

In a raid 0 setup, all 5 drives seek to the data, send it to the raid controller which sends "12345" to the ram essentially all at once.

This is an extreme simplification, but you get the idea. Assuming a lot of variables are perfect and everything goes perfectly then the apparent seek time of the drive is going to be the seek time of one drive divided by the number of drives and the transfer rate is going to be the transfer rate of one drive times the number of drives.

That's stupid

Video is BS.

A DVD-ROM can't read a DVD fast enough to rip it in .7 seconds, and the main bottleneck here is the CPU(s).

I hope they know that you aren't supposed to defrag SSD drives. There is 0 benefit and it will only kill the drives faster...

Woah. How do you set up the data to be like that? I'm assuming that it can be done automatically but that's pretty cool. All these wicked smaht British types.

Oh and dissonance - I understood that to mean that they had already ripped the DVD to the computer and then wanted to make another copy of it. That was their lame pun - what's faster, to move it in the computer, or to move it out the window.

And they didn't intentionally defrag the drives, they wanted to show they could open all programs in the start menu quickly, of which the defrag is one of them. Either way I'm certain it doesn't "kill the drives" faster by any marked amount... If it did you'd figure it wouldn't let you defrag SS drives.

this is BATMAN RIDES AN AT-AT AWESOME!!!!!!!!!

I thought 2GB was 2048mb?

@43
Yeah, that's one IT guy who doesn't know his MB conversions.
2019.6MB/s (displayed on the screen) comes out at a little UNDER 2GB/s
Amateur...

Life is great.

Life is not great.

But it wont make my porn run too fast will it?
That would be bad because I have to actually see the porn for it to do it's job.

@44

If you had bothered to read the end slides, we reached 2121.29 MB/s, which is well over 2 GB/s.

I wasn't responsible for the editing ;)

Neat, but why didn't they use a couple 12 drive drive enclosures.
24 SATA SSD drives + 2x12 bay hot-swap RAID enclosures (tray-less even) + 2 really expensive JBOD raid controller (expensive for the number of SATA channels) == no fire extinguisher necessary.

"playing Crysis in high resolution" ??????
What does that have to do with anything?
I can do that now with my slow standard hdd.

@39,

It was not a dvd tat was being ripped form the dvd drive. it was a video that had already been ripped to the hard drive, and they were just copying it to another folder on the array

hi. There. Wow. 24. Ssd. In. A. Gaming. Console. Be. Alwsome. For. The. Hard. Core. Gamers

So when Microsoft says that the new Windows is really great for multitasking, THIS is the kind of system they have in mind.

It's a good idea. Thank you

I thought SSD's could handle over 1000G's in shock... seriously, is a guy on a gay-arse trampoline getting anywhere NEAR a real test?