http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/13/battleship-mtron-the-absurdly-fast-ssd-raid-array/ Engadget Comments for http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/13/battleship-mtron-the-absurdly-fast-ssd-raid-array/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/13/battleship-mtron-the-absurdly-fast-ssd-raid-array/Dec 13th 2007 9:58AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/13/battleship-mtron-the-absurdly-fast-ssd-raid-array/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/13/battleship-mtron-the-absurdly-fast-ssd-raid-array/Dec 13th 2007 10:20AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/13/battleship-mtron-the-absurdly-fast-ssd-raid-array/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/13/battleship-mtron-the-absurdly-fast-ssd-raid-array/Dec 13th 2007 3:38PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/13/battleship-mtron-the-absurdly-fast-ssd-raid-array/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/13/battleship-mtron-the-absurdly-fast-ssd-raid-array/SSD is the obvious future. No Moving Parts, data flowing near the speed of light. Once the technology gets there I expect TERABYTE/sec transfer rates.]]>Dec 13th 2007 10:00AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/13/battleship-mtron-the-absurdly-fast-ssd-raid-array/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/13/battleship-mtron-the-absurdly-fast-ssd-raid-array/Dec 13th 2007 10:01AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/13/battleship-mtron-the-absurdly-fast-ssd-raid-array/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/13/battleship-mtron-the-absurdly-fast-ssd-raid-array/Dec 13th 2007 10:10AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/13/battleship-mtron-the-absurdly-fast-ssd-raid-array/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/13/battleship-mtron-the-absurdly-fast-ssd-raid-array/Dec 13th 2007 10:11AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/13/battleship-mtron-the-absurdly-fast-ssd-raid-array/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/13/battleship-mtron-the-absurdly-fast-ssd-raid-array/Dec 13th 2007 10:13AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/13/battleship-mtron-the-absurdly-fast-ssd-raid-array/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/13/battleship-mtron-the-absurdly-fast-ssd-raid-array/]]>Dec 13th 2007 10:14AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/13/battleship-mtron-the-absurdly-fast-ssd-raid-array/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/13/battleship-mtron-the-absurdly-fast-ssd-raid-array/With his other comment in mind, it's probably just that he only read the post and didn't look at the test page.

He didn't call anyone a fool, or say that people were morons for being fooled, just that is what it LOOKS like. So really, there is no need to jump on his ass for making his comment about the sata drive. Unless that's your preference, but I guess that would make you (I'll let you come up with whatever applicable generic aspersions on your character that should go here)]]>Dec 13th 2007 11:19AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/13/battleship-mtron-the-absurdly-fast-ssd-raid-array/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/13/battleship-mtron-the-absurdly-fast-ssd-raid-array/Dec 13th 2007 12:08PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/13/battleship-mtron-the-absurdly-fast-ssd-raid-array/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/13/battleship-mtron-the-absurdly-fast-ssd-raid-array/So...
I think all of your arguments are moot, except for those who are talking about the tech getting to light speed transfers one day.
Sorry to sound like a flame...
Just use your eyes from time to time.
GR]]>Dec 13th 2007 12:54PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/13/battleship-mtron-the-absurdly-fast-ssd-raid-array/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/13/battleship-mtron-the-absurdly-fast-ssd-raid-array/Dec 13th 2007 10:01AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/13/battleship-mtron-the-absurdly-fast-ssd-raid-array/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/13/battleship-mtron-the-absurdly-fast-ssd-raid-array/Dec 13th 2007 10:07AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/13/battleship-mtron-the-absurdly-fast-ssd-raid-array/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/13/battleship-mtron-the-absurdly-fast-ssd-raid-array/Dec 13th 2007 10:18AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/13/battleship-mtron-the-absurdly-fast-ssd-raid-array/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/13/battleship-mtron-the-absurdly-fast-ssd-raid-array/
It scares me how many people don't know that.]]>Dec 13th 2007 10:21AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/13/battleship-mtron-the-absurdly-fast-ssd-raid-array/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/13/battleship-mtron-the-absurdly-fast-ssd-raid-array/Dec 13th 2007 11:06AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/13/battleship-mtron-the-absurdly-fast-ssd-raid-array/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/13/battleship-mtron-the-absurdly-fast-ssd-raid-array/Dec 13th 2007 10:17AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/13/battleship-mtron-the-absurdly-fast-ssd-raid-array/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/13/battleship-mtron-the-absurdly-fast-ssd-raid-array/Dec 13th 2007 10:58AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/13/battleship-mtron-the-absurdly-fast-ssd-raid-array/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/13/battleship-mtron-the-absurdly-fast-ssd-raid-array/
That's the problem, you tried thinking.]]>Dec 13th 2007 11:57AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/13/battleship-mtron-the-absurdly-fast-ssd-raid-array/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/13/battleship-mtron-the-absurdly-fast-ssd-raid-array/Dec 13th 2007 10:35PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/13/battleship-mtron-the-absurdly-fast-ssd-raid-array/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/13/battleship-mtron-the-absurdly-fast-ssd-raid-array/Dec 13th 2007 10:19AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/13/battleship-mtron-the-absurdly-fast-ssd-raid-array/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/13/battleship-mtron-the-absurdly-fast-ssd-raid-array/
I mean, really... How much porn do you have that you need such a setup? I can't imagine anyone of the hardcore nerds who does this sort of thing would have enough business data to measures it in terabytes, so it's GOT to be porn.

Well, I suppose it could be pirated music or movies, too.

All I know is that these sorts of RAID arrays are typically owned by guys who don't change their shirt but once a month, and who have a home/room filled with computer parts and cables strewn all over the place. I can't imagine they have any real need for such a setup, but just do it because it carries nerd cred.

By the way, I'm differentiating between geek (someone who has a few non-mainstream hobbies) and nerd (someone with few social graces who obsesses over math or computer guts.) I've been both at one time or another. No offense it meant by the use of the word "nerd", although some offense is meant with the insinuation that they have no lives and thus nothing to put on these hard drives aside from illegal data and porn.

And for the inevitable question, "So what is *your* hard drive filled with Mr. Smartass?" the answer is "applesauce."

No, really, it's porn and downloaded music. I just don't need a terabyte of it.

Let the cranky responses. . . Begin!]]>Dec 13th 2007 10:24AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/13/battleship-mtron-the-absurdly-fast-ssd-raid-array/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/13/battleship-mtron-the-absurdly-fast-ssd-raid-array/Dec 13th 2007 10:32AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/13/battleship-mtron-the-absurdly-fast-ssd-raid-array/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/13/battleship-mtron-the-absurdly-fast-ssd-raid-array/
But maybe that's just me.]]>Dec 13th 2007 10:34AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/13/battleship-mtron-the-absurdly-fast-ssd-raid-array/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/13/battleship-mtron-the-absurdly-fast-ssd-raid-array/Dec 13th 2007 1:04PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/13/battleship-mtron-the-absurdly-fast-ssd-raid-array/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/13/battleship-mtron-the-absurdly-fast-ssd-raid-array/Dec 13th 2007 11:23AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/13/battleship-mtron-the-absurdly-fast-ssd-raid-array/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/13/battleship-mtron-the-absurdly-fast-ssd-raid-array/Dec 13th 2007 11:51AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/13/battleship-mtron-the-absurdly-fast-ssd-raid-array/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/13/battleship-mtron-the-absurdly-fast-ssd-raid-array/Dec 13th 2007 11:54AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/13/battleship-mtron-the-absurdly-fast-ssd-raid-array/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/13/battleship-mtron-the-absurdly-fast-ssd-raid-array/Businesses will LOVE big SSD's in a RAID array's.]]>Dec 13th 2007 1:05PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/13/battleship-mtron-the-absurdly-fast-ssd-raid-array/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/13/battleship-mtron-the-absurdly-fast-ssd-raid-array/We are talking about holding a movie Digitally with almost all the data from the film.
This frames are easily 50-60MEGS EACH & u need to load 24 of those every second SUSTAINED.


you do the math ;-)

-F]]>Dec 13th 2007 4:02PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/13/battleship-mtron-the-absurdly-fast-ssd-raid-array/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/13/battleship-mtron-the-absurdly-fast-ssd-raid-array/Dec 13th 2007 10:36AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/13/battleship-mtron-the-absurdly-fast-ssd-raid-array/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/13/battleship-mtron-the-absurdly-fast-ssd-raid-array/Dec 13th 2007 10:51AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/13/battleship-mtron-the-absurdly-fast-ssd-raid-array/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/13/battleship-mtron-the-absurdly-fast-ssd-raid-array/
But I thought that SSD still had a problem with limited re-write functions, does it not? This would be great for archival data or data that is read but not written properly, but I wouldn't recommend using it as a boot drive with all of the temp files that Windows writes under normal operations.

Or has a lot of progress been made on the re-write reliability of SSDs and I missed it?]]>Dec 13th 2007 11:16AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/13/battleship-mtron-the-absurdly-fast-ssd-raid-array/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/13/battleship-mtron-the-absurdly-fast-ssd-raid-array/
"This would be great for archival data or data that is read but not written frequently"

Frequently. WTF good would it be if data is not written properly?! :) Jolt! Bawls! Come to me! I need you!


]]>Dec 13th 2007 11:30AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/13/battleship-mtron-the-absurdly-fast-ssd-raid-array/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/13/battleship-mtron-the-absurdly-fast-ssd-raid-array/Dec 13th 2007 12:33PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/13/battleship-mtron-the-absurdly-fast-ssd-raid-array/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/13/battleship-mtron-the-absurdly-fast-ssd-raid-array/Dec 13th 2007 11:02AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/13/battleship-mtron-the-absurdly-fast-ssd-raid-array/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/13/battleship-mtron-the-absurdly-fast-ssd-raid-array/
But that's just me.]]>Dec 13th 2007 10:40AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/13/battleship-mtron-the-absurdly-fast-ssd-raid-array/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/13/battleship-mtron-the-absurdly-fast-ssd-raid-array/Dec 13th 2007 12:26PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/13/battleship-mtron-the-absurdly-fast-ssd-raid-array/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/13/battleship-mtron-the-absurdly-fast-ssd-raid-array/Dec 13th 2007 12:34PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/13/battleship-mtron-the-absurdly-fast-ssd-raid-array/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/13/battleship-mtron-the-absurdly-fast-ssd-raid-array/Dec 13th 2007 12:45PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/13/battleship-mtron-the-absurdly-fast-ssd-raid-array/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/13/battleship-mtron-the-absurdly-fast-ssd-raid-array/Dec 13th 2007 10:47AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/13/battleship-mtron-the-absurdly-fast-ssd-raid-array/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/13/battleship-mtron-the-absurdly-fast-ssd-raid-array/
It was so fast that we broke Windows software RAID, which we were using for one of the configs that didn't have hardware RAID support -- in fact, we are the uncredited source of the quote in the fourth paragraph of http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/10/19/harder_hard_drives/.]]>Dec 13th 2007 10:42AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/13/battleship-mtron-the-absurdly-fast-ssd-raid-array/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/13/battleship-mtron-the-absurdly-fast-ssd-raid-array/
I just tested for a little comparison, and it takes me twice as long (8 seconds) to copy a 1 gig file (and yes this is in Vista). Get the prices of these down and the capacities up and we have a winner, though they'll definitely be more worthwhile in laptops long before desktops mainly for the power consumption factor.]]>Dec 13th 2007 10:42AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/13/battleship-mtron-the-absurdly-fast-ssd-raid-array/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/13/battleship-mtron-the-absurdly-fast-ssd-raid-array/Dec 13th 2007 11:24AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/13/battleship-mtron-the-absurdly-fast-ssd-raid-array/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/13/battleship-mtron-the-absurdly-fast-ssd-raid-array/Dec 13th 2007 1:06PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/13/battleship-mtron-the-absurdly-fast-ssd-raid-array/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/13/battleship-mtron-the-absurdly-fast-ssd-raid-array/Dec 13th 2007 10:46AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/13/battleship-mtron-the-absurdly-fast-ssd-raid-array/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/13/battleship-mtron-the-absurdly-fast-ssd-raid-array/Dec 23rd 2007 1:38AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/13/battleship-mtron-the-absurdly-fast-ssd-raid-array/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/13/battleship-mtron-the-absurdly-fast-ssd-raid-array/
So what. I have a 2TB RAID at work connected via fibre to a Mac Pro. I just copied a 2GB folder via Gigabit Ethernet RAID in 10 seconds. I haven't done all of the benchmarks, but you can surely get the kind of performance he's talking about from a standard RAID config - and for ALOT less money.

Sure an Xserve RAID is physically larger than 9 SSD drives, but at $7K for 150GB come on! I can get a 1TB Xserve RAID for $6K, add a fibe card for a couple hundred and I've got a fast big redundant RAID for $800 less than this.]]>Dec 13th 2007 10:52AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/13/battleship-mtron-the-absurdly-fast-ssd-raid-array/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/13/battleship-mtron-the-absurdly-fast-ssd-raid-array/
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