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In a brilliant marketing move, Samsung sent 24 SSDs to a group to play with/benchmark and this is what they ended up doing with it:
- Building a dual, quad-core monster box
- With a 24-disk SSD RAID array
The machine at it’s peak performance gets around 2 GB/sec (not gigaBIT, but gigaBYTE). To show off what that really means in the real world, the host does the following things:
- Loads every Office 12 application in 0.5 seconds
- Loads every single application off the start menu in like 40 seconds
- Makes a local copy of a DVD rip of a movie in 1 second
- Erases like 1 TB of files off the drive in 2 seconds.
- Defrags the entire disk in I think 8 seconds
It’s just increasible… give it a watch:
As a technologist, it makes me so damn happy to finally see progress along these lines in the disk performance arena. We’ve been bottlenecked for so long because of our hard drives, it’s really nice to see that finally disappearing.
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March 12th, 2009 at 8:34 am
While this is definitely a sight to behold, don’t you think that it might be a tad too early to claim the bottleneck is disappearing in any practical way? I mean: I don’t think that we will see 24 drive arrays in typical computers for a long time — especially ones that may be running the tasks highlighted by this article (opening MS Office, etc.).
March 12th, 2009 at 7:54 pm
Probably a super-valid point… I don’t I’ll be getting $10k worth of SSDs in a RAID anytime soon.
While I’m so damn jazzed about SSD, given the hickups we’ve seen with the controller design and performance as well as load-balancing algorithms that Intel was using that destroyed the drive performance over time (until you did an fdisk) it seems we have another couple of years before things have settled down and flattened out.
March 15th, 2009 at 2:48 pm
true, but still, that video gave me a hard on. OMG it would be nice to have a system that performs like that.