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Thats just showing off.
Badass rig though.
~Lordbob
LOL. True, but at the price they want for the SSD below that gets the best SATA 6Gb/sec speeds around, it's just to high for price vs performance. The cheaper 128GB version of this SSD doesn't get the same speed at all.
Newegg.com - Crucial RealSSD C300 CTFDDAC256MAG-1G1 2.5" 256GB SATA III MLC Internal Solid State Drive (SSD)
You'll be glad that you waited (if you can wait ) when the 6 Gb/s SSD field develops and matures a bit, there should be some blazing speed monsters by the end of the year
There's always the 24 SSD RAID option
In the end, the bottleneck will be the controller... The closest thing to a fast storage right now is Infiniband used as communication bus, or LightPeak if it ever lift off... Or, maybe a SAS HBA...?
zzz2496
My concerns would be whether running the OS from something faster would really provide that many more benefits than what we currently have? Most of the OS performance is with random read and writes. And the biggest benefit to using the SSD is the extremely low access times...which aren't going to significantly improve with the next gen SSD drives.
Of course, for flat out storage the benefits of very high read and write speeds would matter...but then again....how much are people willing to pay for storage space???