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Mar 9th 2009 at 12:42PM :

Obtained parts list for the "The Turk":

26 SAMSUNG SSD 256GB MLC
4 KINGSTON 800MHZ FBDIMM 1GB
6 1" SAS -> 4" SATA SFF-8087
6 1 MOLEX -> 4"SATA POWER
2 BLU-RAY (RW) / HD-DVD COMBO
2 COSAIR HX1000W POWER SUPPLY
2 INTEL EXTREME QX9775 QUAD CORE
2 ZALMAN COOLERS(SAWN TO FIT)
2 RADEON HD 4870 X2 GRAPHICS
1 INTEL SKULL TRAIL D5400XS MOTHERBOARD
1 ADAPTEC S SERIES RAID (8 CHANNEL STOCK SETUP)
1 ARECA 1680ix-24 RAID (BETA FIRMWARE FROM ARECA FTP)
1 THERMALTAKE ARMOUR CASE]]>Mar 9th 2009 2:54PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/09/24-samsung-ssds-get-strung-together-for-supercomputer-fun/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/09/24-samsung-ssds-get-strung-together-for-supercomputer-fun/Mar 9th 2009 3:59PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/09/24-samsung-ssds-get-strung-together-for-supercomputer-fun/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/09/24-samsung-ssds-get-strung-together-for-supercomputer-fun/Mar 10th 2009 4:42PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/09/24-samsung-ssds-get-strung-together-for-supercomputer-fun/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/09/24-samsung-ssds-get-strung-together-for-supercomputer-fun/Mar 9th 2009 4:45PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/09/24-samsung-ssds-get-strung-together-for-supercomputer-fun/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/09/24-samsung-ssds-get-strung-together-for-supercomputer-fun/Mar 9th 2009 6:08PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/09/24-samsung-ssds-get-strung-together-for-supercomputer-fun/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/09/24-samsung-ssds-get-strung-together-for-supercomputer-fun/
They copied a movie from one place to another. DVDs are typically more than 4gig. It still took about a second. If you pause the movie you can see that they split the drives between the Areca (10), Adaptec (8) and Sata (6) connectors on the Mobo. They also had to remove one of the Vid cards because two were generating too much traffic and thus holding the rig back from it's true potential.

It's fast. Accept it.

That said, it is also impractical. The heat would be phenomenal, it's likely $12K in drives, AND it dosen't fit in the case. (I do give them points for the CD Rack 'hack')]]>Mar 9th 2009 6:43PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/09/24-samsung-ssds-get-strung-together-for-supercomputer-fun/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/09/24-samsung-ssds-get-strung-together-for-supercomputer-fun/Mar 9th 2009 7:18PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/09/24-samsung-ssds-get-strung-together-for-supercomputer-fun/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/09/24-samsung-ssds-get-strung-together-for-supercomputer-fun/Mar 9th 2009 12:48PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/09/24-samsung-ssds-get-strung-together-for-supercomputer-fun/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/09/24-samsung-ssds-get-strung-together-for-supercomputer-fun/Mar 9th 2009 3:45PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/09/24-samsung-ssds-get-strung-together-for-supercomputer-fun/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/09/24-samsung-ssds-get-strung-together-for-supercomputer-fun/Mar 9th 2009 12:50PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/09/24-samsung-ssds-get-strung-together-for-supercomputer-fun/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/09/24-samsung-ssds-get-strung-together-for-supercomputer-fun/Mar 9th 2009 6:17PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/09/24-samsung-ssds-get-strung-together-for-supercomputer-fun/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/09/24-samsung-ssds-get-strung-together-for-supercomputer-fun/Mar 9th 2009 12:51PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/09/24-samsung-ssds-get-strung-together-for-supercomputer-fun/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/09/24-samsung-ssds-get-strung-together-for-supercomputer-fun/Mar 9th 2009 12:52PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/09/24-samsung-ssds-get-strung-together-for-supercomputer-fun/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/09/24-samsung-ssds-get-strung-together-for-supercomputer-fun/Mar 9th 2009 1:01PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/09/24-samsung-ssds-get-strung-together-for-supercomputer-fun/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/09/24-samsung-ssds-get-strung-together-for-supercomputer-fun/Mar 9th 2009 2:52PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/09/24-samsung-ssds-get-strung-together-for-supercomputer-fun/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/09/24-samsung-ssds-get-strung-together-for-supercomputer-fun/Mar 9th 2009 7:28PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/09/24-samsung-ssds-get-strung-together-for-supercomputer-fun/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/09/24-samsung-ssds-get-strung-together-for-supercomputer-fun/Mar 10th 2009 3:01AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/09/24-samsung-ssds-get-strung-together-for-supercomputer-fun/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/09/24-samsung-ssds-get-strung-together-for-supercomputer-fun/JIZZ IN MY PANTS]]>Mar 11th 2009 11:49PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/09/24-samsung-ssds-get-strung-together-for-supercomputer-fun/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/09/24-samsung-ssds-get-strung-together-for-supercomputer-fun/

SHOW US BOOT UP TIME!]]>Mar 9th 2009 12:53PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/09/24-samsung-ssds-get-strung-together-for-supercomputer-fun/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/09/24-samsung-ssds-get-strung-together-for-supercomputer-fun/Mar 9th 2009 12:59PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/09/24-samsung-ssds-get-strung-together-for-supercomputer-fun/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/09/24-samsung-ssds-get-strung-together-for-supercomputer-fun/Mar 9th 2009 5:07PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/09/24-samsung-ssds-get-strung-together-for-supercomputer-fun/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/09/24-samsung-ssds-get-strung-together-for-supercomputer-fun/_______________

The Skulltrail motherboard has a notoriously long startup time - about a minute before it'll attempt to boot to any operating system.

Once the motherboard was done initialising, it'd get to a fully usable desktop in about 5 or 6 seconds.
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http://www.reddit.com/r/reddit.com/comments/836i6/hey_reddit_samsung_gave_me_24_new_ssd_drives_to/c084cbo]]>Mar 10th 2009 1:32PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/09/24-samsung-ssds-get-strung-together-for-supercomputer-fun/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/09/24-samsung-ssds-get-strung-together-for-supercomputer-fun/Mar 9th 2009 12:54PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/09/24-samsung-ssds-get-strung-together-for-supercomputer-fun/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/09/24-samsung-ssds-get-strung-together-for-supercomputer-fun/Mar 9th 2009 1:02PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/09/24-samsung-ssds-get-strung-together-for-supercomputer-fun/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/09/24-samsung-ssds-get-strung-together-for-supercomputer-fun/
6Gb ~ .75GB < 2 GB]]>Mar 9th 2009 1:04PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/09/24-samsung-ssds-get-strung-together-for-supercomputer-fun/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/09/24-samsung-ssds-get-strung-together-for-supercomputer-fun/
I don't know if WD did as well.]]>Mar 9th 2009 1:05PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/09/24-samsung-ssds-get-strung-together-for-supercomputer-fun/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/09/24-samsung-ssds-get-strung-together-for-supercomputer-fun/Mar 9th 2009 1:05PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/09/24-samsung-ssds-get-strung-together-for-supercomputer-fun/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/09/24-samsung-ssds-get-strung-together-for-supercomputer-fun/Mar 9th 2009 1:08PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/09/24-samsung-ssds-get-strung-together-for-supercomputer-fun/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/09/24-samsung-ssds-get-strung-together-for-supercomputer-fun/Mar 9th 2009 1:36PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/09/24-samsung-ssds-get-strung-together-for-supercomputer-fun/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/09/24-samsung-ssds-get-strung-together-for-supercomputer-fun/
That's not how RAID works, it doesn't scale linearly (though it scales much better with SSDs than HDDs). Awesome vid nonetheless.]]>Mar 9th 2009 1:36PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/09/24-samsung-ssds-get-strung-together-for-supercomputer-fun/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/09/24-samsung-ssds-get-strung-together-for-supercomputer-fun/Mar 9th 2009 12:58PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/09/24-samsung-ssds-get-strung-together-for-supercomputer-fun/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/09/24-samsung-ssds-get-strung-together-for-supercomputer-fun/Mar 9th 2009 1:05PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/09/24-samsung-ssds-get-strung-together-for-supercomputer-fun/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/09/24-samsung-ssds-get-strung-together-for-supercomputer-fun/Mar 9th 2009 1:12PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/09/24-samsung-ssds-get-strung-together-for-supercomputer-fun/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/09/24-samsung-ssds-get-strung-together-for-supercomputer-fun/Mar 9th 2009 1:20PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/09/24-samsung-ssds-get-strung-together-for-supercomputer-fun/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/09/24-samsung-ssds-get-strung-together-for-supercomputer-fun/
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16811133021]]>Mar 9th 2009 1:41PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/09/24-samsung-ssds-get-strung-together-for-supercomputer-fun/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/09/24-samsung-ssds-get-strung-together-for-supercomputer-fun/Mar 9th 2009 1:46PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/09/24-samsung-ssds-get-strung-together-for-supercomputer-fun/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/09/24-samsung-ssds-get-strung-together-for-supercomputer-fun/Mar 9th 2009 3:38PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/09/24-samsung-ssds-get-strung-together-for-supercomputer-fun/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/09/24-samsung-ssds-get-strung-together-for-supercomputer-fun/Mar 9th 2009 5:08PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/09/24-samsung-ssds-get-strung-together-for-supercomputer-fun/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/09/24-samsung-ssds-get-strung-together-for-supercomputer-fun/Mar 9th 2009 1:05PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/09/24-samsung-ssds-get-strung-together-for-supercomputer-fun/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/09/24-samsung-ssds-get-strung-together-for-supercomputer-fun/Mar 9th 2009 1:10PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/09/24-samsung-ssds-get-strung-together-for-supercomputer-fun/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/09/24-samsung-ssds-get-strung-together-for-supercomputer-fun/Mar 9th 2009 2:09PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/09/24-samsung-ssds-get-strung-together-for-supercomputer-fun/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/09/24-samsung-ssds-get-strung-together-for-supercomputer-fun/
i would kill for 6TBs at this speed for editing HD]]>Mar 9th 2009 1:07PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/09/24-samsung-ssds-get-strung-together-for-supercomputer-fun/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/09/24-samsung-ssds-get-strung-together-for-supercomputer-fun/Mar 9th 2009 1:12PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/09/24-samsung-ssds-get-strung-together-for-supercomputer-fun/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/09/24-samsung-ssds-get-strung-together-for-supercomputer-fun/Mar 9th 2009 1:14PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/09/24-samsung-ssds-get-strung-together-for-supercomputer-fun/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/09/24-samsung-ssds-get-strung-together-for-supercomputer-fun/Mar 9th 2009 2:00PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/09/24-samsung-ssds-get-strung-together-for-supercomputer-fun/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/09/24-samsung-ssds-get-strung-together-for-supercomputer-fun/Mar 9th 2009 1:10PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/09/24-samsung-ssds-get-strung-together-for-supercomputer-fun/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/09/24-samsung-ssds-get-strung-together-for-supercomputer-fun/
Seriously though, that was awesome.]]>Mar 9th 2009 1:11PM