incubus: i was thinking the same thing :) the seek time is basically zero for ssd’s, so they’re test doesn’t show very much.

You don’t need to defragment them! In fact, that only hurts the drives…

Besides that, the video was pretty awesome. 2GBps is nothing to laugh at.

Wow, that was pretty damn epic.

You know – those ssds were hardly full when doing the “defrag” – try it again when your 6 terabytes of drive has only 6 megs of free space and severe fragmentation.

Crysis at high res? Absolutely has more to do with the ram/cpu/videocards/motherboard than drive access speeds.

About the only part of this that impressed me was A) the 2 GBPS transfer speed and B) the fact that when bouncing on the trampoline none of the drives came unplugged.

imagine somthing like than in an eeepc….somehow imagine lol

As said above, showing in-game footage of Crysis is nothing special. Show us how long it took to load the level.

“Defraggin’ my hard drive for thrills.”
- Weird Al Yankovic

I hope we are not talking 2 gbit/s because I spent far far less on 750 gig SATAs with a 9650SE-ML16 3ware card and get 480MB/s writes. Yes, almost 2x the speed for my guess, over 10x less.

Oh, and I forgot to add, looking up the prices on 256gb SSD’s. About $500, you do the math. 24 drives. Over $12000 in SSD’s….

That DeFrag thing was bogus though; They used Auslogics Disk Defrag and if you look at the numbers, even though it went through over 10,000 files only 3 of them were actually fragmented… My computer does the same thing, and I have only a 500GB 7200HDD. the rest was just CPU if you ask me, you don’t need good transfer rates to open start menu programs and to run crysis I’m not sure why the hell they think 2GB a second would help there lol. 2GB transfer rates are really awesome, but the way they showed it was plain stupid.

@nathan… what drives are you using that can get those kinds of r/w cycles?

I hope you guys got paid for posting it.

it was so boring i almost killed myself
i trust you will cover my psychiatric expenses

-hero

@takato – good idea

not sure about the chords. does that sound like minor 7th to you?

The only way they pulled this off was of the Full custom ram and the serious processing power this thing had, it was a super computer for god sakes!! all super computers are capable of feats like this, and most of them cost way below half the price. Now if they did this with a regular computer with an average cpu, lets say an athalonx2 with 2 gigs of ram, and the system not overclocked to insane levels. Im confident a average hard drive would beat all of those solid state drives installed in a similar machine.

I think the point of this was to prove the concept that SSDs can meet and even beat traditional hard drives in the performance arena. Of course, just because you *can* doesn’t mean it’s practical.

Bit like having a mac really

I see nobody has mentioned the “copying DVD file” test.

It was a 700mb rip, not even a 4.7GB rip. (If I had 6TB of storage you can bet I am not going to subject my video to poor compression.)

W0W and I thought that I wasted time…
As a true geek you ARE a hacker with ETHICS…
Use a large “marketing” program to do the same thing…
At someone elses cost they’ll never know..
They do have “super computers” and they CAN be hacked…

funny idea did it w/seagates when 1gb hard drives did’nt exist…
like them it looks nice lots of storage but no real use except stor lots of music!! lol

Run Crysis.

Am I the only one wondering why they needed two 1000 watt power supplies to power that? And the only one not impressed at the delete speed? I can delete files almost as fast.

yes i am quite surprised as well about how they didn’t brag about how ssds don’t need defragging

The 2 GB/ s is impressive, but a couple of the tests were bogus. Crysis was the one that threw me off, they should’ve just showed the loading time for it.

Still, pretty sweet.

Everyone that keeps writing that defragging the SSD is pointless obviously knows nothing about the SD instruction set. It WILL make a difference. Synchronous read is in the SSD instruction set and therefore with an increased stripe size, reduced addressing instructions are used to provide a synchronous read and transfer speed is further increased. This is a fundamental instruction on any serial access memory.
Sorry to be a kill joy here, but you are wrong..
Paul.

“I hope we are not talking 2 gbit/s because I spent far far less on 750 gig SATAs with a 9650SE-ML16 3ware card and get 480MB/s writes. Yes, almost 2x the speed for my guess, over 10x less.”

Nathan – he clearly states “Two Thousand Megabytes per second”.

I just wish they showed how long it took to boot Vista.

God what a miserable bunch. I think most of the people who have made comments here need a fucking sense of humour.

NO FUCKING SWEARING GOD DAMN IT!

Okay, a couple of things here, very impressive but first, why on earth defrag an SSD? Not only does it decrease the life of the disk but also SSDs don’t get fragmented since they don’t have disk plates, and being as each drive is doing the exact same thing to each drive as a single drive would be I don’t see how defrageg 24 SSDs in a raid would be faster than defragging 1 SSD. Also for Crysis, graphics would have very little affect from the hard drive, only thing that the hard drives would realy affect is the load time.

If I did this project though I totaly would have got like an external RAID that could hold 24 drives :P And idk if I’d waste the money to get 6TB lol, I’d imagine the smaller ones would be just as fast when it comes to solid state memory and the cheapest 250GB SSD I’ve found was like $700 so for 6TB from 24x 250GB SSDs would cost almost $17,000 lol

Weebl MUST HAVE done the sound track!