I want this. I need this.
Yeah....Riiiiiiiiight! Where's the line start?
Makes me wonder if there was a problem with those drivers? AT FIRST...
All in all time will tell with those drives and OEM will for sure find a way to get it cheaper than everyone else.
Next will be the BIG Gaming industry too begin using this besides dvd's. Write protected of course!
Nice showing there Brad - thanks for the heads up on a new advantage to getting what is needed to do the job right.
I've been wanting to do this on a much smaller scale when I get a new computer (I start planning computer builds years before actually start building them). I set up a two disk stripe on my current one but since the mean time between failures for solid state drives is so much bigger than for platter drives you can confidently set up as large of a stripe as you can afford. With 24 cheap platter drives you'd get similar rediculous speeds (not as rediculous, but still) but the combined chance of failure for them would but pushing it.
For those of you who don't have esperience with this kind of thing, if any drive in a stripe dies the whole thing dies. Any single hard drive tends to last quite a while, but add enough and you suddenly get failures a little more often than most people would be comfortable risking.
Newegg currently sells a 16GB solid state drive for $75, 6 in a stripe would "only" be $450 and would have a theoretical maximum read of about 900MB/second. I wish the Samsung guys would have shown exactly how they have theirs set up though. They're probably using some tricks that would be nice to know.
You're thinking of platter drives, these are solid state drives. By your equasion in 3 years solid state will be about 1GB/$1 which is still a rediculous amount when you can buy 10GB/$1 platter drives now.
Unlikely, hardrives are so much heavier than DVD's the shipping cost would skyrocket, and most people don't want to open their case and muck about in order to install a game.
USB memories, on the other hand, are ridicously cheap. Closing in on dvds?
What are the GOOD SSDs atm? I hear Samsung have had significant problems with speed reduction on their drives - transfer rates go down after a couple of weeks/months, and stay down. Is there any good SSDs on the market, that would be worth putting your OS on? I also understand that "windows" is not customized to run on anything but platter drives, which would in turn make the impact considerably less than anticipated (windows 7 the cure? people say no, so far in rev 7000).
What I fear is that SSDs will continue to be high-end for companies only. If the performance, the power saving and the cost saving is so awesome... where are the SSDs that are fit for high-end homeowners?
For example... if I have $500 allocated for a disk setup, and I am looking for either an OS or a "quick" storage area, what should I be aiming for? And how much faster would it be (no, don't care about synthetic tests)? 'Cause $500 could buy me some significant storage on platter drives, so SSDs would have to be pretty damn fast, yes?
i wonder if a bank would actually write that up for a loan.
If you have a motherboard designed to handle this much data from this many harddrives you end up with a rediculously fast set up. Windows "should" easily load in under 2 seconds, probably under one. You will need another hard drive seperate from the stripe if you want to store much media though. 6 drives at 16GB each is only 96GB, enough for an OS and a few games and/or work programs but not enough if you plan on keeping movies or music on your main drive (I'd suggest not keeping them on your main drive anyway if you're going for performance).
"Crysis at very high" lol
ohhhhhhhhh eeeee it's nice ............. but by the time you do all the work
and spend all the money .................... they will go and invent a new single
chip that's faster and a single hard drive that is lager ............ and do it
for half the Price!!! ... then what Upgrade ? again! ... it will never END ...... Help Us All !