What To Do With 24 256GB Samsung SSDs?

is it just me,or would one have to sell the house,kids,wife,both cars,(my poor cat) and give blood every day for a month in order to have a system like that?
Impressive? yeh,it is,but can only a handful of ppl can afford to build a box like that?:eek:
 
I wonder how much the cost of that machine was.

Looking at newegg they have 2 256GB drives for sell one for $489 and one for $530. I'd assume the Samsung one are probably around the $530 mark also if not more. At that rate you are looking at $12,720 for the harddrives.

Other specs are 2 QX9775 cpus, 2 Radeon HD 4870 X2 video cards, 4 GB ram

So you are looking at another $3100 in cpus, about $900 in video cards, add in the memory and you are just under $18,000 for the build with those part. So what in the end you are looking at about $19,000 for a computer by the time you add in the power supplies, case, fans, controllers?

How does that compare to what you could build for about 1/5 the cost?
 
i like how when he first installs the drives he gets like 2gb/s of throughput then after he defrags them (stupid) and does the test again at the party the throughput is a fraction of what it was just a little while ago.
 
Exavior said:
How does that compare to what you could build for about 1/5 the cost?
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Can't open every program in your system in 18 seconds probably :p

I don't remember the last time I did that though.....
 
This just goes to show how the industry feeds us technology piece meal . But all I can say is WoW.
 
two 1k PSU's?

24 hours to build?

all that and still managed to pick a lame case and no cable management, let alone installing the drives INSIDE the system.

full of fail.

But nice hardware though.
 
You can scroll through 1 million PORn pictures so fasssst that your Penis and GOnads goes BOom!
 
Citizen86 said:
Can't open every program in your system in 18 seconds probably :p

I don't remember the last time I did that though.....
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Probably not, but how fast would let say 24 Sata II in the same RAID configutation perform?
 
Fishy video all around.
1)
With 2kW in PSU, they still couldn't use both 4870X2's. Something about their raid card wanting more juice from the PCI-E bus.
2)
Then I was a loss as to why they had multiple raid cards till I noticed something. They maxed out their speed at 9 drives! That was at only 1GB/s. To increase their speed, they used multiple raid's! So, one from mobo, and 2 add-in cards.
3)
You can't use two add-in cards on that mobo if you are using crossfire 4870X2's! So, were they lying in 1 to increase speed of 2?

Gah, never trust a marketer.
 
Damn, you guys killed the video.. It just says "video no longer available" for me.. I wanted to drool too!! :D
 
Here... I did the hard work :)

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couple hundred bucks. Price is the killer. I am sorry not practical yet. I like the speed but how practical is it at only 256GB only. You can have 5 TB of HD's at that price.
 
godfetish said:
Fishy video all around.
1)
With 2kW in PSU, they still couldn't use both 4870X2's. Something about their raid card wanting more juice from the PCI-E bus.
2)
Then I was a loss as to why they had multiple raid cards till I noticed something. They maxed out their speed at 9 drives! That was at only 1GB/s. To increase their speed, they used multiple raid's! So, one from mobo, and 2 add-in cards.
3)
You can't use two add-in cards on that mobo if you are using crossfire 4870X2's! So, were they lying in 1 to increase speed of 2?

Gah, never trust a marketer.
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SlamDunk posted the last screens where you have to pause to see it... but they say that they had to disconnect a 4870x2 because it was making the ACERCA bios fail to initialize. They also removed their two DVD drives which gave them 50mb/s more.
 
Ockie said:
two 1k PSU's?

24 hours to build?

all that and still managed to pick a lame case and no cable management, let alone installing the drives INSIDE the system.

full of fail.

But nice hardware though.
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You're just jealous you don't have 24 256gb SSD drives in your storage array :D
 
I rather enjoyed the cheesiness of the video. Awesome if rather impractical :).
 
I saw more fruity hair dye in that video than in a entire hair salon!
 
mnewxcv said:
just to point it out, 2019MB =/= >2GB
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How so? If you go by the hard drive definition of a GB, then as you call it "2GB" would be 2000 MB/sec, if you by the memory definition of a GB, it would have been 2048 MB/sec...
 
i guess its arguable.

Since the giga- prefix means 109, gigabyte means 1,000,000,000 bytes (10003, 109). However, this term is also often used meaning 1,073,741,824 bytes (10243, 230).

1,073,741,824 bytes, equal to 10243, or 230 bytes is the interpretation commonly used for computer memory and often file sizes. Microsoft uses this definition to display hard drive sizes[2]. Since 1999, the IEC has defined this quantity as gibibyte(abbreviated GiB) and most standards bodies now recommend this usage.
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Why are they defragging the Raid array? That is so stupid. Just shows how uneducated teh Samsung british marketing team is. You don't defrag an SSD it shortens the life of the drive and provides no benefit. They did not show how long it took to boot the system. Plus what were the cards hooked up to? A PCI Express 16x Raid card? What does a $20,000 Computer setup tell us? Tat if you got a lot of money that SSD's have a great deal of potential? Something we already knew. :D I'll most likely get my next computer with an SSD for the OS and games and a traditional 1TB hard drive for media files. right now I am jsut adding a few minor upgrades to my PC to hold me over gaming wise. I plan on buying a new system about a year from now, waiting for windows 7 and its first service pack and SSD's to go down in price by half.
 
The "throwing the dvd out the window vs copying the dvd rip" is definitely the best benchmark I've ever seen!
 
They wouldn't have shown the boot up time because it'd take ages with the RAID initialisation. Still, pretty impressive numbers for a consumer board. Shows you why Netapps top out so badly as they're basically run on hardware like that machine :)

I've heard rumours of a big bank doing a full throughput test on a Hitachi USP V with 1000+ 15k Disks on the array and fully loaded cache and getting frankly preposterous throughput but having not seen it myself I wouldn't want to repeat the numbers.

Looks like SSD's are finally getting traction though which is good. WANT
 
Wonder if they couldn't jimmy up multiple SSD drives in one "box" as a "drive" then have an internal RAID hooked to it to get these same types of numbers from a smaller package... . and not making it look so messy with octowires!
 
Volkum said:
The "throwing the dvd out the window vs copying the dvd rip" is definitely the best benchmark I've ever seen!
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That one was good, although the "jumping up and down on a trampoline while holding 24 SSD drives" was pretty interesting as well.
 
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