24 SSDs In RAID = 2GB/s Throughput

Category: Storage / Hard Drives
Posted: March 9, 2009 11:27AM
Author: jammin

We all know that solid state drives (SSDs) are fast, and when you grab a few of them and set them up in a RAID array they are fast enough to push the limits of even accomplished dedicated RAID controllers. So how about putting 24 drives into a 6TB RAID array and seeing what kind of performance you can get out of them? Well, when asked to show how great Samsung SSDs are, a marketing team thought the best way to do it was just that. In putting the array through its paces, they managed to achieve throughput of 2GB/s (yes, Gigabytes). Some of the real world performance demonstrations are also pretty impressive, such as opening up all the programs in the Vista start menu (53 of them) in a mere 18 seconds. Of course, this is basically Samsung paying for publicity, but that doesn't mean it isn't worth checking out the video.