My god, its beautiful.

[Pikarya]

In a RAID the data is spread throughout all the drives. The more drives you spread it out on, the more you can pull data from simultaneously. So yes, more drives = higher speeds.

This.


As for the specs, at the end of the youtube video you can pause it for full details on everything. From problems they had to corrections in the hardware setup.

I'd post an image but can't run Youtube at work right now.

[Araelus]

This.


As for the specs, at the end of the youtube video you can pause it for full details on everything. From problems they had to corrections in the hardware setup.

I'd post an image but can't run Youtube at work right now.

I was right - there are two CPUs. Yes!
Bit blurry but hmm.
http://img16.imageshack.us/img16/5048/ssdawesome.png
This is not all of the info they provide but it's most of the text at the end.

[Zhais]

My god that is sexy

[_chuchu]

http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b3...oshi/icame.jpg

[Bikpik]

The best part is, as this technology become more available, the prices will drop a lot, hell if you don't really care about space, you can already get 32GB ssd hard drives for $100ish now.

[Gatsby]

The best part is, as this technology become more available, the prices will drop a lot, hell if you don't really care about space, you can already get 32GB ssd hard drives for $100ish now.

Next Level Hardware.com: Battleship Mtron

This was the first SSD raid array back in December of 2007. Things have really changed since then.

[Aro]

Technology, gotta love it ;3

[Weltall]

I bet it can't even run Ultima...

[6souls]

from Bakakamakashi

6 Nippon Labs 8" Molex to SATA 15 pin power cord Model SATAPC ($3.99 each)
1 Thermaltake Armor Case $149.99
2 CORSAIR CMPSU-1000HX 1000W ($269.99 each)
1 Intel BOXD5400XS (Skulltrail) Extended $599.99
2 IntelCore2 3.2GHz LGA771 Quad-Core ($1,549.99 each)
1 Adaptec SATA / SAS Kit Controller Card $959.99
1 areca PCIe x8 SAS RAID Card $1,199.99
6 3ware (SFF-8087)SerialATAbreakoutcab le ($14.99 each)
2 Kingston HyperX (1gb x 2) DDR2800 ($79.99 each)
2 ZALMAN CPU Cooler ($49.99 each)
2 LG Black Super Multi Blu-ray Disc Burner & HD ($225.00 each)
2 G.SKILL TITAN 256GBT1 2.5" 256GB SATA II ($549.99 each)
2 SAPPHIRE 4870 X2 2GB Video Card
($404.99 each)
Subtotal:$22,493.46

its not like you need to eat or anything. that's more than i make in a fucking year =(

[mootsfox]

Fairly pathetic if you ask me.

83MB/s per drive is nothing impressive. They could have used eight Intel X25's or similar to get the same speed. Why they choose to combine three separate arrays across three RAID controllers is beyond me when there are 24 port RAID controllers on the market.

Simply speaking, 2GB/s is possible with conventional hard drives.

Kind of funny too, how this massive SSD bandwidth of 2GB/s is still less than a third of what common DDR2 can do

[levish]

They combined arrays because they were not scaling any further with more drives after 8 or 9 helping them to overcome the controller limitations.