Samsung Shows Off 24 SSDs In RAID 0 = 2GB/s Throughput

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Check out the Video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=96dWOEa4Djs&fmt=22

It wasn't all that long ago when a mere nine SSD drives in a RAID array was enough to cause most folks' jaws to drop, but the world of ridiculous technology exercises moves quickly, and we can only be thankful that a select few continually feel the need to one-up each other and share their results with all of us.

This latest effort comes from a group enlisted by Samsung (in a not too thinly disguised marketing exercise), who paired up 24 SSDs in a RAID array totaling 6TB in size. Even more impressive than that, however, is the 2GB per second throughput speed they managed to achieve, which they naturally spared no expense in demonstrating -- as you can see in the video after the break.

P.S. Technical:

they custom-built an 8-core, triple-RAID, Windows Vista system, utilizing 24 256GB MLC SSDs, for a total of 6TB of storage.

Their system used an Intel Skulltrail D5400XS motherboard, with two Intel 3.2GHz QX9775 Quad-Core processors, 4GB of 800MHz FB-DIMM DDR2 SDRAM, two ATI Radeon HD 4870 X2 graphics cards, an Adaptec 5 Series RAID card, an Areca 1680ix-24 RAID card, and two Corsair HX1000W power supply units. And, of course, 24 Samsung SSDs.

It also took them several iterations of setting up the RAID controllers until they had a configuration that didn't saturate the controllers. They finally settled on a configuration that had 10 of the SSDs conntect to the Areca RAID controller, 8 of SSDs connected to the Adaptec 5 Series controller, and 6 of the SSDs connected directly to the motherboard. This resulted in three separate RAID 0 arrays.

The optical drives were disconnected during testing to maximize available throughput for the on-board SATA ports. All testing was done at stock speeds, although they did experiment with some overclocking "for the fun of it"--the system remained stable with the CPUs running up 3.6GHz; and they even got it up to 4GHz, but at that speed the system was "wobbly."

http://hothardware.com/News/24-Samsu...er-for-2GBSec/

Source:
http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/09/2...rcomputer-fun/