WOW, These drives are going up in price. This is the 160GB model. http://www.pugetsystems.com/store/item.php?cat=Hard+Drive&id=5814&com=d41d8cd9
A few weeks ago this drive was 700 and change, now its up to $840+. Chris... On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 4:24 PM, Dante Lanznaster <[email protected]> wrote: > haha that video was awesome already, and they used 24 Samsung MLC drives... > It'd be faster already if it was the Intel X25-M which is also MLC, but the > X25-E uses SLC which is even faster. > > 24 X25-E in a massive RAID system, now imagine that.... *drool* > > On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 1:57 PM, Mark Traceur <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Reminds me of this: >> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=96dWOEa4Djs&fmt=22 >> >> Soooooo much geekery went into that video. >> >> I know...he put Windows on it....but still, it's obvious he wasted no time >> getting Steam running so it's perfectly OK, he's a gamer. >> >> On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 12:54 PM, Dante Lanznaster <[email protected]> >> wrote: >>> >>> Pricey if you compare to regular SATA drives. I'd compare these drives to >>> SAS drives, and then they're not that pricey anymore. >>> >>> Read this: >>> http://dcsblog.burtongroup.com/data_center_strategies/2008/11/intels-enterprise-ssd-performance.html >>> >>> Note that when in RAID, these babies require a high-end RAID card, >>> otherwise the performance actually drops, due to the bottleneck on high >>> number of IO per second. >>> >>> On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 12:09 PM, Peter Manis <[email protected]> >>> wrote: >>>> >>>> Pricey though >>>> >>>> http://www.google.com/products?q=x25-e+intel&hl=en >>>> >>>> On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 2:17 PM, Chris Penn <[email protected]> >>>> wrote: >>>>> >>>>> via Digg.com >>>>> http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/ubuntu-904-boots-in-175-seconds/ >>>>> >>>>> VanDyke mentioned this drive to me on the IRC channel. I am impressed. >>>>> >>>>> Drive >>>>> http://www.intel.com/design/flash/nand/extreme/index.htm >>>>> >>>>> Chris... >>>>> -- >>>>> "As we open our newspapers or watch our television screens, we seem to >>>>> be continually assaulted by the fruits of Mankind's stupidity." >>>>> -Roger Penrose >>>>> _______________________________________________ >>>>> LinuxUsers mailing list >>>>> [email protected] >>>>> http://socallinux.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linuxusers >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> -- >>>> Peter Manis >>>> (678) 269-7979 >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> LinuxUsers mailing list >>>> [email protected] >>>> http://socallinux.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linuxusers >>>> >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> LinuxUsers mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> http://socallinux.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linuxusers >>> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> LinuxUsers mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://socallinux.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linuxusers >> > > > _______________________________________________ > LinuxUsers mailing list > [email protected] > http://socallinux.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linuxusers > > -- "As we open our newspapers or watch our television screens, we seem to be continually assaulted by the fruits of Mankind's stupidity." -Roger Penrose
