Posted: 10/2/2011 11:18 AM
(Edited: 10/2/2011 11:42 AM)
Post subject: Crazy awesome Computers you've all seen
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Flygon
Joined: 11/4/2007
Posts: 1772
Location: Australia, Victoria
Screw the video tag function, this isn't the post your videos thread, I actually want to see some discussion of high end PC's going on around here. What sort of rigs have you guys made? Or experienced?
Posted: 10/2/2011 11:35 AM
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Lex
Joined: 6/25/2007
Posts: 732
Location: Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
This video is from March 2009, long before the current super-fast generation of SSDs! A RAID of 12 current drives should out-perform that RAID array. Also, a single Z-Drive R4 RM88 edition is faster (2800MB/s): http://www.oczenterprise.com/ssd-products/z-drive-r-series.html ;D
Posted: 10/2/2011 11:39 AM
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DeHackEd
Emulator Coder, Site Developer, Former player
Joined: 11/6/2004
Posts: 833
I put a pair of SSDs into a Dell PowerEdge server with a battery-backed RAID controller. The battery means the controller can claim writes have finished when they really haven't and be safe in case of power failure, but also acts as a write buffer which may prolong the life of the SSDs since these things are kept quite busy. Performance? 4000 to 6000 IOPS with somewhat random loads and 3500 with very random loads. To put that in perspective random seeking usually sees 150-200 IOPS on a spinning drive and 600-800 for sequential work. (IOPS = I/O Operations Per Second) So yes, solid state drives really do perform miracles and I encourage everyone to buy one and use it appropriately. Lex: That drive has the benefit of not being limited by a SATA cable. 12 drives can defeat that limitation, but you can't claim top prize in the performance race just by putting your SSD right onto the PCI bus. Oh wait, yes you can.
Posted: 10/2/2011 11:59 AM
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Bisqwit
Editor, Active player (297)
Joined: 3/8/2004
Posts: 7469
Location: Arzareth
Remember kids, never defragment your SSDs.