Patriot: We Built a 40 SSD Drive Crazy Computer

[AsAnAtheist]

@coonday, it will probably take longer then 20 years before this kind of storage speed becomes mainstream. Maybe longer then 30 years. I know HDD technology may hit it's end in 10 years or less. SSD may become the next mainstream in the next of years to come if they push storage up and price down while keeping performance up.

Anyways I wonder what the Windows boot time is.

 

[micky_lund]

[citation][nom]Camikazi[/nom]It's worth a shot, but just letting you know you show up with 5 I will show up with 10[/citation]
ill raise you to $12

 

[Guest]

I dont like fast pc's 39458 they cost alot

 

[gekko668]

Please Tom request that system so you guy can benchmark it.

 

[lashton]

this cdn.eyewonder.com makes this page wait for about 3 minutes before loading, this server has caused you site to be the slowest site i goto on this computer VERY VERY annoying, atleast competing sites dont have this crap

 

[descendency]

[citation][nom]Belardo[/nom]Will it... could it... play...CRYSIS?[/citation]
Let it go man. Crysis 2 will be here soon enough.

 

[Shadow703793]

With that much RAM why not just make a software RAM Disk??!?!?

 

[tpi2007]

With that amount of RAM and the speed of the SSD's, the OS could just load an entire game to RAM and you owuld play it from there. Well, you could actually have multiple games opened and switch between them like browser tabs! lol Now that would be some real bragging to your friends! heheh

 

[Luscious]

The system is capable of making a duplicate copy of a "Blu-ray rip" on the 40-drive SSD array in a blistering fast 0.9 seconds. That's at least an 8GB file copy in under a second.

Isn't BD 25GB??? Last I checked it was dual layer DVD that was 8GB.

 

[Marco925]

It's a Series of tubes!

 

[liquidsnake718]

hmmm. 40 different winners for 40 different SSD's. Unless you are planning on running a small school or something

 

[joex444]

They're idiots. It's obvious you should be using multilane SAS cables.

 

[razzb3d]

Dunno about you guys, but i count 20 SSDs in that picture, not 40. Thats 4 drives per raid card right? Also, i doubt it has more than 48GB of ram. As far as i know, that MB does not support 4GB DDR3 modules...

 

[overclockingrocks]

I think I need a new pair of boxers

 

[mayne92]

Oh my...I had to laugh at this rig...that is crazy fast!!!

 

[gamebrigada]

[citation][nom]razzb3d[/nom]Dunno about you guys, but i count 20 SSDs in that picture, not 40. Thats 4 drives per raid card right? Also, i doubt it has more than 48GB of ram. As far as i know, that MB does not support 4GB DDR3 modules...[/citation]

Its 8 ports per card, so 8 drives per card. Also that MB supports up to 98 Gigs of ram.

Basically, they are using 5 of the 7 available slots, they are using half of the possible ram. Im guessing next person who wants to beat it will just pitch in more money then patriot did and build a better, faster one.

 

[bp 4575]

Dibbs

 

[krogoth]

Too bad, that load time is entirely CPU bounded with that setup.

RAID is a expensive, but practically useless gimmick for gamers. The vast majority of load time for games are CPU-bounded.

 

[of the way]

[citation][nom]krogoth[/nom]RAID is a expensive, but practically useless gimmick for gamers. [/citation]

What exactly do you mean by that? Two smaller hard drives don't cost that much more than one larger one. And it's not a gimmick, it (RAID 0) increases the speed of hard drive related tasks by allowing both hard drives to work at the same time.

 

[mattijs123]

i bought an SSD x25 intel to decrease load times and was amazed at how many apps (especially autocad, dirt2) seem to not really get a boost because apparently they're just doing nothing. For example, when you load a drawing in autocad it still hangs for 30 seconds at the 99 percent loaded indication without using any CPU cycles nor doing SSD accesses. I fail to see why a program halts when it's not waiting for either CPU time or SSD time?????

anybody know why it happens.

Codemasters games too...eventhough loading a level only takes a short time they insist on keeping the loading page showing you useless information as if there is a default time they make you wait. Probably because they are coded for blu ray / hd dvd load times on the consoles and no programmer was in the mood to decrease the number on some counter variable.

I am quit underwhelmed by the change too SSD :/

 

[Mikez]

[citation][nom]AsAnAtheist[/nom]@coonday, it will probably take longer then 20 years before this kind of storage speed becomes mainstream. Maybe longer then 30 years. I know HDD technology may hit it's end in 10 years or less. SSD may become the next mainstream in the next of years to come if they push storage up and price down while keeping performance up.Anyways I wonder what the Windows boot time is.[/citation]


For me, I run Vista on my laptop, and it loads in about 30 seconds. I have a run-time gadget on my sidebar. I counts up-time from the momment you turn it on. So for me, to turn it on, get everything loaded, sign in... It takes about 45 seconds to 1:15.

 

[korsen]

[citation][nom]Luscious[/nom]Isn't BD 25GB??? Last I checked it was dual layer DVD that was 8GB.[/citation]
My 3 year old rig can do that now... I want windows booted up before I lift my head off the floor, and I want windows to stop running 60 processes (under vista/7/server2008R2) - dunno how we went from 18 on XP to 60.

 

[korsen]

Doh, wrong quote. Was trying to quote loading up 10 games and tabbing between them.

 

[danielmastia]

@kelfen
But the vette wouldnt go nearly as fast as this puppies

 

[grieve]

""- (2) 1000W Thermaltake TRX-1000M power supplies""

Where is the second one in the picture?

The cables are clean and neat because the second PSU is on the back of the case (guess)... 20 more power connections running up the front would clutter it a lot more.