Samsung's New Video Makes Us Want 24 SSDs
Posted 03/10/09 at 09:01:36 AM by Paul Lilly
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Think your quad-VelociRaptors in a RAID 0 array are hardcore? Try 'hardly impressive,' at least when compared to the scintillating setup Samsung put together consisting of 24 -- TWENTY FOUR -- 256GB SSDs running in RAID. The goal? To show the world how awesome SSDs are via a YouTube video.
"While one SSD gives you an amazing 220MB/s access speed, we could actually use more of them together to build something extreme," Samsung narrated in a YouTube video. "Through RAID, we could theoretically combine 24 in tandem to make the world's most power consumer computer. Now that would prove SSD awesomeness."
Even without the massive collection of SSDs, Samsung's testbed impresses with two quad-core QX9775 processors, two HD 4870 X2 videocards in a CrossFire configuration, a custom 4GB 800MHz FB-DIMM, and two 1000W power supplies. But with the SSDs hooked up, Samsung's setup is nothing short of astonishing.
After playing around with stripe sizes, Samsung managed to break 2000MB/s (2GB/s). But Samsung didn't just strut its stuff with synthetic benchmarking. The video shows all of Microsoft Office opening in just 0.5 seconds, or instantaneously. This was followed by opening up all of the system's Start menu programs (53 in all) in a mere 18 seconds. Want more? Try copying a 700MB DVD rip from one location to another in 0.8 seconds.
And yes, it can play Crysis. See for yourself right here.
Time for an Upgrade
Submitted by guest001 on Tue, 03/10/2009 - 7:45pm
Sounds like MPC needs to upgrade the dream machine. The builds are quite similar.
Submitted by -it- on Tue, 03/10/2009 - 6:43pm
i would not be surprised if it spontaniously burst into flamesXD
I thought my Raid 0 was
Submitted by vistageek on Tue, 03/10/2009 - 2:40pm
I thought my Raid 0 was fast. I REALLY want one of those. That is some bragging rights. An just think of all the ladies I could pick up if I had those. JK. OMG... I want one...
I want!!!
Submitted by Devo85x on Tue, 03/10/2009 - 12:58pm
I want to build this with a custom case that could actually hold all the drives
Submitted by digitaljones on Tue, 03/10/2009 - 2:08pm
Get few of these; I have 3 and they work well.
http://www.addonics.com/products/raid_system/ae4rcs25nsa.asp
Thanks for that link! I'll
Submitted by MyMojo on Tue, 03/10/2009 - 6:57pm
Thanks for that link! I'll have to remember that when I move to SSDs. Awesome!
If humans evolved from monkeys, why are there still monkeys?
That is the fastest hunk of
Submitted by Keith E. Whisman on Tue, 03/10/2009 - 10:20am
That is the fastest hunk of junk in the galaxy. I'm sure this thing will be waiting at Kessel for the Milenium Falcon to arrive.
Submitted by hogkill on Thu, 03/12/2009 - 8:09am
shut up about the Kessel run. you manage to put it in almost every bloody comment you leave on this site
Just to note for noting's
Submitted by TheMurph on Tue, 03/10/2009 - 8:40am
Just to note for noting's sake, but this isn't that impressive when you consider that the 24 connected drives are just bumping up against the bandwidth limit of a PCI Express x8 connection (2,000 MB/sec) -- assuming, as I am, that Samsung is using the biggest PCI Express x8 RAID card it can find. I haven't known many, if any, consumer cards to come in PCI Express x16 versions.
That said, the theoretical maximum bandwidth of 24, 256GB Samsung SSDs is somewhere in the 5 GB/sec range. While 2 GB/sec is nothing to scoff at, it also doesn't represent the potential maximum power of these drives.
Submitted by MyMojo on Tue, 03/10/2009 - 9:13am
In other words: they could get the same results with fewer drives, read...... 'wasted some money' Ha Ha.... nice catch Murph.
If humans evolved from monkeys, why are there still monkeys?
Submitted by TheMurph on Tue, 03/10/2009 - 10:19am
Actually, if you wait until the very, very end of the video, they display their crazy setup: 10 drives on one RAID controller, 8 drives on a second RAID controller, and 6 drives connected directly to the motherboard. Beats my "they slapped it all on an x8 controller" theory, but I bet they're still taking a performance hit from splitting the RAID up as they do.
Submitted by Keith E. Whisman on Tue, 03/10/2009 - 10:22am
Who cares? That rig has some serious MOJO man... It's got all it's junk just hanging out for all to see.
Submitted by bear on Tue, 03/10/2009 - 8:03am
Finally! An HDD setup that can *almost* keep up with the OC-384 I've always wanted!
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Submitted by MyMojo on Tue, 03/10/2009 - 7:55am
Wow! I thought my hard drive setup was fast! Hard drives are usually the bottleneck when it comes to building a fast system. Not the proc, unless it's just really outdated. I've been using four 15,000 rpm SAS Cheetahs in RAID 0 with a Adaptec 31205 controller for over a year now and almost every program I have loads instantly. But not that fast! I only have an AMD X2 6400+ proc and I still get over a half gig/s of transfer speeds, but 2? All I can say is, I want some of that!
If humans evolved from monkeys, why are there still monkeys?
Submitted by Kaasiim on Tue, 03/10/2009 - 7:09am
While this is thoroughly covered in awesomesause, it does bring to mind a few questions that I’ve been meaning to ask regarding SSD’s.
Mainly real-world questions like how much of a difference in write speed is there between a regular hard drive (no, not a raptor) and a SSD. Would putting 2 of them in raid make a significant difference in read/write speed?The 24 SSD raid set up is incredible, but if Samsung, or any SSD vendor is really wanting to promote sales, then they would need to provide information that most people can use. (although displays such as this is still kickass)
Submitted by okron1k on Tue, 03/10/2009 - 6:43am
i expect no less in this years dream machine! :D
Wow
Submitted by Geeksquadmyss on Tue, 03/10/2009 - 6:12am
That is amazing, if only they could make SSD's pirces a little cheaper with more space and better write speed as well, and i would totally use them in my new machine
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