Harddisk the bottleneck? Who says! Cray has a (flash/solid state) 80GB/s HDD system!

[FishTankX]

Cray's 80GB/s 225GB solid state system!!

Just imagine what you could do with this thing!!!!

 

[Joony]

if only it can run windows

 

[fatbaby]

yes but price is in the 5-6 figure range!

 

[Budman]

REPOST

 

[Barnaby W. Füi]

<< yes but price is in the 5-6 figure range! >>


you wish it was that cheap!


<< if only it can run windows >>


why in the world would you want to do that?

 

[FishTankX]

I would say about 200,000$.. probably........

Then again.. if you thinka bout it.. it's way beyond the realm of your PCI bus, or even your AGP bus, or even your FSB!!

It can transfer data about 20X faster than PC1066 dual channel RDRAM.

:Q It's pretty sad to do a comparison

In one corner, Seagate X15!
In another corner, the new contestant!

Seagate X15 VS Cray Mystery drive! Fight!

Seagate drive transfers a 224GB file in 3750 seconds, or 1 hour, such and such seconds.

Cray mystery drive=3 seconds

Can anyone guess the winner? Jeez! I mean, this thing has more IO bandwidth than 3 of IBM's Z900 mainframes put together!!!

 

[MrGrim]

First search, then post.

 

[ElFenix]

and then you realize you might as well have a whole bunch of RAM.

 

[NukemAll]

80GB/s? On what platform? There isn't a bus nor interface standard to be had the supports 80GB/s. Not SCSI, not IDE, not PCI, not AGP, sure not USB nor anything wireless. What's the point when a RAID array, using striping, can saturate existing busses, and so would perform ecactly the same as any Solid State drive, for far fa less money.

 

[MoMeanMugs]

No moving parts

 

[FishTankX]

Allright, this is a super computer platform. You're talking about massive maybe 256 bit multi GHZ bus's. But there are 2 parts to the equation

This solid state disk:80GB/s
X15:80MB/S

Seek time
X15 3.5MS
This disc:Maybe 0.003 MS

Seek time is a huge issue when working with database's and solid state is lightyears ahead of IDE and SCSI because it has no moving parts and runs offa semiconductors. And we're talking about moving around copies of the human genome here when we talk about applications so honestly they can make use of the bandwidth and stuff..

But here's a snippet from some stuff I read

X-15 8 drive raid aray=8,000 IO/s a second
Solid state disk array (I think the same size)=100,000 IO's a second

There are just some things that spinning drives can't touch, and one of them is solid states seektime/IOPS (IO's per second)/transfer rate/reliability (These puppies are rated for 100 some years? 🙂