Only $700, a small price to pay for a couple of steamboats.

Holy heat sink nerds! Did anyone notice the 12 inch high cpu heat sink? Ssd drives are cool...

>> ^serosmeg:

Holy heat sink nerds! Did anyone notice the 12 inch high cpu heat sink? Ssd drives are cool...

Looks like cooler master's i7 heatsink and I love that thing!

Nice!
The more useful version with 960GB is only $3.3k

I am waiting for the reliabilities, prices, and disk sizes to match old HDDs.

Its not that fast in real applications. I tested one and others similar (much more expensive ones) and they simply dont give you much more performance than an SSD. My Intel X25-M 80 GB is actually faster in some aspects like small file access. His benchmark exposes that too. The important 4k one is just as much as on normal SSDs. These things really are not worth their money unless you copy lots of huge files all the time.

Let's see how fast it starts up with a 200 page full colour brochure in Indesign!

I wasnt that impressed with the boot up tbh, I've got two 500GB drives in raid0 and theres no way I'm seeing $700 worth of increased performance here. The crystal disk results are pretty amazing though.

I like the flashing lights.

I looked into these, and they're not actually worth the money. For the same amount of cash, you can buy an Areca RAID controller and 8 hard drives, and put a RAID5 together that gets as good or better sequential and random read & write speeds. Further, you'll have nearly 10 terabytes of storage space, and ALL of it is backed up by virtue of being in a RAID with redundancy.

If you really search around, you can find small companies making 10 Terabyte SSD systems which transfer at 10GB/s or faster, which is *really* impressive...though it'll cost you a hundred thousand or more.

If you want speed, put 24 ssd's in raid. http://videosift.com/video/6TB-Samsung-SSD-Awesomeness

I bought an SSD for my OS drive (not this one though). After installing, the boot time was quite fast. More impressive was how fast Firefox and other apps would come up. However, I've had it for nearly a year now. It's not nearly as fast anymore. The one I have is also only 64 gigs, so you can basically only run the OS and maybe one or two games on it. Wasn't really worth it. When the price comes down and the size goes up, then I'd suggest them. For now, though, spend the money on a larger HD.

What is the new Chekov doing benching computers?

Now say "nuclear wessels"

Yeah wow big deal. Startup with Adobe CS4/CS5 and all its helper apps in under 5 seconds and I will be impressed

Im being flippant, I'll probably buy one.

$600 isnt worth it for me - prolly wait till 4x SSD PCIe is sub $400

The problem is that the Revo Drive can only hit those performance numbers in raid0... as soon as you throw any data protection in, the performance tanks...

>> ^acquacow:

The problem is that the Revo Drive can only hit those performance numbers in raid0... as soon as you throw any data protection in, the performance tanks...


On this 4-drive setup RAID1, in theory, could achieve quadruple the read rate and maintain an identical write rate. You'd have a quarter of the space, of course, but that's always the way it goes with RAID.

I'm not seeing the point of data redundancy. If one of your drives fails on this thing, it doesn't look like you can replace it. I guess if you did a RAID5 setup and a drive failed, you could get a new card and copy it over, at least.