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Cycovision
Joined: Nov 30, 2003
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What happens when you take 24 256GB Samsung MLC solid-state-drives, set them up in RAID, adorn the motherbaord with a stupid amount of very fast RAM, two Quad Core processors and some ridiculously large fans, then stick Vista on it and switch it on?
http://www.flixxy.com/ssd-raid-super-computer.htm
I can't wait for SSD to become the norm!
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fatreg
Joined: Jul 26, 2003
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Shit a brick!
That is quick!
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p900 lover
Joined: Jan 08, 2004
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Wow that was fast, i wonder who would actually use that PC to its full potential? |
yea g
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Oh dam, I only just bought a 1.0tb non ssd hard drive 
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tranced
Joined: Jan 19, 2006
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From: Santo Domingo, wonDeRland
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53 programs in 18.09 is pretty fast. btw, the phones are very solid!
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thomas93
Joined: Sep 28, 2007
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Pretty impressed by that.
Though i need a new drive, funny feeling it will be 250gb HDD npt 6tb SSD though
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Cycovision
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I wonder what it would run like with XP or Linux on it?
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tranced
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On XP: fast.
On Linux: faster.
I'm interested in one of those discs now.
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Cycovision
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You can get 120Gb SSDs for less than £150 now. Yes, that's a very small capacity nowadays but it would be fine as a system drive for many people.
I'm not sure you'd see much real-life benefit without two of them strapped together in RAID 0 and a meaty processor or two to go with them, though!
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Knight UK
Joined: Feb 11, 2009
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Wow now thats impressive.
You have to remember the 2x quad cores though, you couldn't just wack those 24 drives into any machine and get the same performance.
Could you imagine in like 100 years having that sort of power in your standard laptop?
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tranced
Joined: Jan 19, 2006
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From: Santo Domingo, wonDeRland
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On 2009-03-26 11:09:45, Cycovision wrote:
You can get 120Gb SSDs for less than £150 now. Yes, that's a very small capacity nowadays but it would be fine as a system drive for many people.
the problem is that i dont have that money now.
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Posted: 2009-03-25 18:07
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