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What happens when you lash together 24 solid-state drives? Mayhem in geek heaven!
Who says solid-state drives (SSD) aren't fast? Even though this is a marketing stunt by Samsung, we're still impressed nonetheless. These geeks hooked together 24 solid-state drives into a RAID array that totaled 6 terabytes, but the impressive part of this is the speed they achieved: 2GB per second. That's gigabytes, people!
Let's put this into perspective: a drive that can read and write data at speeds of 60MB per second is considered okay these days, so writing at 2GB per second is a fantastic speed. Impressive to geeks, yes, but to you and me, well, faster hard drive speed makes a computer feel a whole lot faster overall.
We were goofing around with an array of drives this weekend, and thought our 420MB/s speed was jaw-dropping when we lashed together six 72GB drives, each spinning at 15,000rpm. Silly us.
Via Engadget
By CJW at 2:25 PM ON 03/09/09
Now, if I can figure out a way to do this with USB thumb drives or SD cards, I'd be able to clear out my desk drawer in a productive way.
By CJW at 2:36 PM ON 03/09/09
Also, did you notice that he's using an old CDROM organizer thing to house the drives in? I'm jealous.
By budgethero at 5:55 PM ON 03/09/09
that was NUTS!! totally awesome! plus, i clap for the person who put the video together. it was hilarious.
By Paul at 11:19 PM ON 03/09/09
I'm so jealous. Before the economy tanked I had a high end car company set to upgrade their pc used for point cloud processing to a "high end" pc which I was going to build myself. This pc kind of reminds of that project. It didn't use 24 SSD's but it was still gonna be bad ass. But now it probably won't happen and I'm sad :(
By cgp at 11:36 AM ON 03/10/09
Paul: They can't afford not to!
By Jim at 9:54 PM ON 03/10/09
wait, 2GBps not 2Gbps? so really 16Gbps? daaaaaaamn
By foxmajik at 9:34 PM ON 03/11/09
I'm so damn tired of Sony's proprietary adapter blocks.
Why can't you just put the HDMI port ON the CAMERA?
Same goes for iPods. Just put a USB port on it.
Also Motorola Q 9h comes with a "micro USB" to "mini USB" adapter that has a KEYCHAIN LOOP on it, as if to say "you will carry this with you, bitch."
My Sony Clie PDA had the same problem: There was a little plastic block with a proprietary connector on one end and a USB port on the other that was required to sync the device, so if you lost the magic widget your PDA became useless until you paid $40 for a new magic widget.
Oh wait. That's why they make them that way. Got it.
By foxmajik at 9:35 PM ON 03/11/09
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