is it possible to put 24 ssd in a raid?

Question

OK hi everyone
i was just wondering is this movie possible
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=96dWOEa4Djs
what is a raid
does anyone know where i can get all this stuff from really cheap
please help
i really want one of these computers
watch the movie in hd
to read the end

Answer 1

yes it is possible



raid is combining drives and each drive stores a tiny chunk of the file so that when it needs to be accesed it can transfer all the chunks at the same time at very high speed.



about the cheap part, uhm good luck. each drive that they were using costs about 500 dollars, making just the drives about $12,000 US. they are also using 2x QX9775 in skulltrail. each one of those is $1500, as well as two 600 dollar video cards. if you have $18,000 or more to spend on a computer then go for it. i would like to help you build it if you do!! :) this video was obviously sponsored by Samsung that is why they got all the drives. let me put it to you this way, i am a computer enthusiast and i have spent thousands of dollars on computers and have never found it necessary to have even a SINGLE ssd drive and NEVER wanted or needed raid. this video is cool but rediculous

Answer 2

Yes it's possible, but it requires extremely expensive high end components. The drives alone run several hundred quid apiece. And the RAID (Redundant Array of Inexpensive Discs) cards needed may run thousands of pounds a piece. The 2 high end CPUs aint cheap either.



Just a guestimate but you're looking at £10,000 minimum for that rig.



You could buy 2 SSDs and software RAID them or something and the whole build would set you back £1000 but it wouldn't be in the same league as that beast obviously. It'd be a good system though and there's no reason not to do it if you have the dough.

Answer 3

If the laptop in basic terms has one slot, then that's for sure no longer achieveable to create a RAID array from the laptop, yet once you're employing an adapter with twin mSata slots, i've got faith that's internally configured to paintings as a RAID0 or maybe RAID1 in case you have the config application to accomplish that, and can paintings with your laptop (supplied there are no longer any hardware incompatibilities). yet your laptop will see it as a usual SSD or HDD, no longer a RAID array. the answer to the 2nd part of your question is somewhat problematical. The quoted speeds of the SATA port (eg a million.5GB/s, 3GB/s, 6GB/s) are strictly theoretical. easily speeds thoroughly count number on the hardware (hence the mSATA Drives in the adapter and the SATA port on the laptop). Will it ever attain 1GB/s? i do no longer think of so. Even the quoted speeds on the mSATA drives are the final case difficulty. whilst configured in a RAID array, there is particularly an overhead you may p.c. to contemplate. it would desire to attain the 1GB/s velocity to start up in a rapid burst if the report length is small (on condition which you're shifting information in the RAID array, to no longer or from the RAID array to USB or DVD), yet you will see that it degrades because of the fact the circulate progresses. it won't sustain 1GB/s by using out the circulate. on the different hand, in case you do not have hardware incompatibility subjects, your OS and software load cases might desire to be lightning quickly :)

Answer 4

hi chad

yes its possible but with the solid state drives required to run a raid array this large it would require you to re-mortgage your house

raid stands for redundant array of inexpensive disks and is used to allow computer users to achieve high levels of storage reliability from low-cost and less reliable PC-class disk-drive components, via the technique of arranging the devices into arrays for redundancy.

raid is split into different types known as "levels" and these include the following :

RAID 0 : this uses a technique known as "striping" and provides improved performance and additional storage but no redundancy or fault tolerance. Any disk failure destroys the array, which has greater consequences with more disks in the array (at a minimum, catastrophic data loss is twice as severe compared to single drives without RAID). A single disk failure destroys the entire array because when data is written to a RAID 0 drive, the data is broken into fragments. The number of fragments is dictated by the number of disks in the array. The fragments are written to their respective disks simultaneously on the same sector. This allows smaller sections of the entire chunk of data to be read off the drive in parallel, increasing bandwidth. RAID 0 does not implement error checking so any error is unrecoverable. More disks in the array means higher bandwidth, but greater risk of data loss.

RAID 1 : this is done using "mirroring" and provides fault tolerance from disk errors and failure of all but one of the drives. Increased read performance occurs when using a multi-threaded operating system that supports split seeks, as well as a very small performance reduction when writing. Array continues to operate so long as at least one drive is functioning. Using RAID 1 with a separate controller for each disk is sometimes called duplexing.

RAID 2 : used with hamming cide parity and disks are synchronized and striped in very small stripes, often in single bytes/words. Hamming codes error correction is calculated across corresponding bits on disks, and is stored on multiple parity disks.

RAID 3 : Striped set with dedicated parity or bit interleaved parity or byte level parity

RAID 4 : Block level parity : Identical to RAID 3, but does block-level striping instead of byte-level striping

RAID 5 : Striped set with distributed parity or interleave parity

RAID 6 : Striped set with dual distributed parity

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The pc you saw on you tube has probally been customised or built by a end user with endless capital,and would cost you a kings ransom,however raid using 2 or 3 disks would give you similar results at a much smaller outlay

raid also requires you to have a raid controller which can be bought seperately and installed into a spare 32bit pci-bus slot

however most motherboards made within the last 3 years should come with a intergrated raid controller built into your motherboard

when installing windows you are required to install the raid drivers and during windows installation this is normally done by pressing the f6 key

any problems let me know

good luck chad !