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VIDEO: 24 SSDs in a RAID array

wow, what I'd like to know is how they connected that many drives to a single PC. That's a controller card from heaven. Think of the awesome raid array you could do with that many 1TB regular drives. Like a giant raid 10 array using 12 stripped + 12 stripped in mirror. *drulls*
 
There are 250gb SSDs now? I don't really keep up with storage tech.
 
Originally posted by: Kaido
In related news, Seagate demoed a 6 Gbps HDD:

http://www.engadget.com/2009/0...ps-hard-disk-making-s/

I can only imagine how much fun a 24 SSD array would be @ 600 MB/s 😀
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Saw this today too. Pretty sweet.

Now I need to upgrade my server again. 😛

Really eventually when it becomes easier to get boards with lot of sata ports I just want to build a massive VM server so I can seriously start working towards my A+ and other certs and setup complex test environments.
 
Originally posted by: RedSquirrel
Originally posted by: Kaido
In related news, Seagate demoed a 6 Gbps HDD:

http://www.engadget.com/2009/0...ps-hard-disk-making-s/

I can only imagine how much fun a 24 SSD array would be @ 600 MB/s 😀
Click to expand...

Saw this today too. Pretty sweet.

Now I need to upgrade my server again. 😛

Really eventually when it becomes easier to get boards with lot of sata ports I just want to build a massive VM server so I can seriously start working towards my A+ and other certs and setup complex test environments.
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You don't really need a lot of drives to set up a massive VM server. Set up smaller vm machines. Storage space has NOTHING to do with the complexity.

Also you don't really need a complex environment to prep for A+, Net+, MCSE, etc..

Maybe high end Cisco certs but otherwise..
 
I saw this on Gizmodo today and it so awesome! I wish I could have the system (w/o SSD) as its a killer machine!
 
Originally posted by: TruePaige
Originally posted by: RedSquirrel
Originally posted by: Kaido
In related news, Seagate demoed a 6 Gbps HDD:

http://www.engadget.com/2009/0...ps-hard-disk-making-s/

I can only imagine how much fun a 24 SSD array would be @ 600 MB/s 😀
Click to expand...

Saw this today too. Pretty sweet.

Now I need to upgrade my server again. 😛

Really eventually when it becomes easier to get boards with lot of sata ports I just want to build a massive VM server so I can seriously start working towards my A+ and other certs and setup complex test environments.
Click to expand...

You don't really need a lot of drives to set up a massive VM server. Set up smaller vm machines. Storage space has NOTHING to do with the complexity.

Also you don't really need a complex environment to prep for A+, Net+, MCSE, etc..

Maybe high end Cisco certs but otherwise..
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It would still be cool to be able to have a few hundred workstation VMs with some servers all running at once. 😀 Though the disk space would be mostly for advanced snap shot hierarchies.
 
Originally posted by: MrPickins
Originally posted by: her209
Ramdisk > All of that
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Good luck getting 6TB of ram...

Although, I wonder how much $$$ all those drives cost.
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Would be cool if they made "hard drives" where you can put a good 30 ram sticks in it and it would actually act as disk space. Obviously it would get erased at shut down and be limited to bus speed, but it would still be cool. Heck they could possibly add a battery pack to keep the data saved, then when it's powered the battery would charge.

Wish I had the knowledge to pull something like this off. Imagine using that for like, swap space, or a database. (would need intense backups mind you)
 
Originally posted by: RedSquirrel
Originally posted by: MrPickins
Originally posted by: her209
Ramdisk > All of that
Click to expand...

Good luck getting 6TB of ram...

Although, I wonder how much $$$ all those drives cost.
Click to expand...

Would be cool if they made "hard drives" where you can put a good 30 ram sticks in it and it would actually act as disk space. Obviously it would get erased at shut down and be limited to bus speed, but it would still be cool. Heck they could possibly add a battery pack to keep the data saved, then when it's powered the battery would charge.

Wish I had the knowledge to pull something like this off. Imagine using that for like, swap space, or a database. (would need intense backups mind you)
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I-RAM

The i-ram seemed to work well, I'm surprised they haven't made a sata2/ddr2 version considering how cheap ram is lately.
 
Originally posted by: RedSquirrel
Would be cool if they made "hard drives" where you can put a good 30 ram sticks in it and it would actually act as disk space. Obviously it would get erased at shut down and be limited to bus speed, but it would still be cool. Heck they could possibly add a battery pack to keep the data saved, then when it's powered the battery would charge.

Wish I had the knowledge to pull something like this off. Imagine using that for like, swap space, or a database. (would need intense backups mind you)
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Well, it doesn't hold 30 sticks, but 8x8 GB is still an awful lot. That product probably would have been an even bigger success than the iRAM, if it hadn't been for a little invention known as the SSD.😉
 
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