Dream SSD machine

[steven]

I want that machine - and the video is pretty cool

(If you are poor don't look you will cry)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=96dWOEa4Djs


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[Kojack]

Same case as I used to have (except I had the black steel version).
With some customisation I could fit all those 24 in my new Lian Li case. It's got 15 drive bays and I could mount another 8 drives or more if I made some custom brackets.

It's not exactly cost effective yet. All 256GB ssd drives available in australia are around the $1000au range, compared to $155 for a 1TB hard drive. So that computer has $24,000 worth of ssds attached. They are about 25x more expensive per gig than a hard drive, but only 3.72x faster (1 vs 1, not raid).

[_tommo_]

A storage is nearly faster than the RAM
And it has also the bottleneck of PCIex8x...

But while memory becomes cheaper, energy doesn't... and that thing sucks 2000W

[Kojack]

But while memory becomes cheaper, energy doesn't... and that thing sucks 2000W

But the ssd drives only use 1.5W each according to the samsung specs, so 36W for the drives and 1964W for the rest.

[Kentamanos]

Yeah, I think the power supply portion of the build was a total overkill.

[Kencho]

Agree. Still an awesome config. Look at that taskbar. My XP config used to cry if I tried to do that, and obviously the processor was so overloaded that I had to wait till the end to start closing windows. And 0.8 secs to rip a DVD? It takes longer to fall from a 2nd floor!

That computer is too expensive for sure, but those who can afford it would be really happy. Once the SSD technology becomes cheaper, data processing computers will be happy

[madmarx]

I ask my network administrator. He told me that the ssd average living time is very short compared to traditionnal hdd.
5000 access is not enough. So it is really a dream machine .

[_tommo_]

I read that a recent SLC SSD can do as much as 100.000 reads per cell, wich are of course levelled... so that it can work for 5-7 years like normal HDs, and they are improving fast.

It's true that 2000W was overkill, maybe they did it to have enough power lines?
And they weren't too sure of the overall stability, given the fire extinguisher

Anywyay i think that things like this expose how much CPU improvement are useless today...
with the same CPU, but exponentially better HD, performances are incredible... Core2+SSD >> i7+HD?
Who could need then to buy a better CPU for everyday use?

[Speedo]

I read that a recent SLC SSD can do as much as 100.000 reads per cell, wich are of course levelled... so that it can work for 5-7 years like normal HDs, and they are improving fast.

Anandtech had a good article about SSD technology sometime last fall... about the time the Intel X25s hit the market. IIRC it said that Intel states their new drives will give a lifetime of 5 years writing 100GB per day. So, for more normal use, the lifespan would be all but comparable to do a normal HDD.

Anywyay i think that things like this expose how much CPU improvement are useless today...
with the same CPU, but exponentially better HD, performances are incredible... Core2+SSD >> i7+HD?

I wouldn't say useless, but yeah I think we've kind of plateaued. My CPU is soon to be 4 years old (Athlon64 4400 dual core) but it can still handle most games and fairly high settings thanks to the gfx card update I did last year (to a 8800GT). The Empire Total War demo was really the first think I've tried that it gets heavily choked up with.

Remember, at least in terms of the average game, the HD is out of the equation once you leave the loading screen. Obviously it makes a big difference when you have constant loading in the background, like in Oblivion/FO3 and many MMOs.

Who could need then to buy a better CPU for everyday use?

They'll bloat up software with more features so that eventually people will need to upgrade. Of course there are some areas like video decoding that require more horsepower. But of course the big factor is that even joe average home user probably isn't likely to keep a desktop more than 5-6 years before replacing it. Laptops are generally replaced much fast than that. So most people will still end up upgrading, even when they don't need it.

[jjp]

This is even cooler http://www.tweaktown.com/reviews/1683/1 ... index.html