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24 Solid State Drives Open ALL of Microsoft Office In .5 Sec

i.gizmodo.com — Warning: This clip is a piece of Samsung marketing material. Warning 2: It's actually pretty fracking amazing, and it might change your view of computers.

Who dugg this? Made popular Mar 10, 2009

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  • le0pard, on 03/09/2009, -21/+419Yeah, but can it play Crys... oh ***** it
  • xGBox, on 03/10/2009, -1/+350You know what, I don't think you guys give enough credit to Samsung for making this entertaining. This could've been presented in a completely monotone way and nobody would've cared. Thank god somebody still has creativity.

    If you listen closely they actually sing in that little computer building montage that they got
  • fotoman607, on 03/09/2009, -77/+343What you are really seeing is the only computer in the world with enough hardware to run Vista.
  • dakbonsa, on 03/10/2009, -2/+256I can jump on trampolines with my hard drive still connected to my computer!?


    Sold.
  • kevman459, on 03/10/2009, -9/+210IT RUNS CRYSIS!!!
  • inactive, on 03/10/2009, -1/+195Great now those porn pop-up windows will be impossible to get ontop of
  • thelastcivilian, on 03/09/2009, -0/+180Assuming approx. $450 for each SSD... that'd be over $10k.
  • bluefirestarter, on 03/10/2009, -2/+172It would probably still take 20 minutes to open stupid Adobe PDF reader
  • Hurricane, on 03/10/2009, -16/+176LMAO@ Defrag in 3 seconds because SSDs DO NOT FRAGMENT, fragmentation is a physical limitation inherit in HDDs.
    Fragmenting an SSD is a useless activity that simply results in changing sector tables and not in really consolidating data, if anything it can create "wear" by moving data from one spot to another.

    Now here is my dork sermon about the subject, mostly for the computer semi-illiterate.
    SSD data is stored in a virtual sector map and access time is virtually identical for every sector, physically the bits are in a memory array and the infinitesimal differences in circuit pathways to each bit creates very little timing difference, in a HDD the sector location is actually the physical location of the data and access time changes noticeably due to the location of the data on the actual disk and the head seek time to that location, when data is written to the nearest empty sector it creates files that are scattered across the drive also known as fragmentation, re-aligning these sectors in the proper order next to each other greatly improves HDD performance also known as defragmenting.
  • enantiodromia, on 03/10/2009, -0/+116on my first day at the current job, i asked my boss what i should be working on. he says "open that box over there, and do something awesome with it".

    it was a box of 16 128G SSD drives, so i made a RAID0 and we giggled like little girls.
  • phpirate, on 03/09/2009, -5/+120It can, actually.
  • Eorster, on 03/10/2009, -0/+100I've done that with my 80gb IDE drives and never had a prob*&%^@JHVBDNmDj*&%^2oj s
  • ridestp, on 03/10/2009, -1/+99Well I would hope so. 2 quad core procs, 2 of the best video cards, a ***** of SSDs, and custom ram modules. If that can't play crysis...
  • fallingdamage, on 03/10/2009, -13/+106and its not a mac.
  • clinko, on 03/10/2009, -4/+92Yet it surfs the web just as fast as this POS laptop i'm typing on.

    (I'm sorry I called you a POS... I'll get you a brand new sticker to cover that newest hinge crack if you work another year. Deal?)
  • ZeaLitY, on 03/10/2009, -9/+93***** amazing. F-U-C-K-I-N-G. This is Digg, not Disneyland.
  • GregZielinski, on 03/09/2009, -0/+72I've read other articles that struggled to scale out speed when striping SSD. Awesome they pulled this off. 2GB per second transfer... WOW!
  • Dougman82, on 03/10/2009, -0/+67Can you get me a job?
  • inactive, on 03/10/2009, -1/+46actually these are 900 each, 21k
  • offrdbandit, on 03/10/2009, -0/+43Um. I would delete your post while you still have the chance.
  • abajaj2280, on 03/10/2009, -0/+42I want to open all of adobe cs4 on there and see how long it takes...

    wait.
    it opened everything on the start menu in 18 ***** seconds.
    unbelievably amazing.
  • Tubal22, on 03/10/2009, -1/+43I've taken the liberty of sending you my can of delicious sarcasm detection. Don't drink it all in one sitting.
  • upick, on 03/09/2009, -0/+40That's what I'd like to see on my PC!
  • Poochy818, on 03/10/2009, -8/+48Did you stop to think he defragged the drive to show the very point you've spent so many words raging over?
  • chubbstar, on 03/10/2009, -0/+38yeah but... how many instances of crysis can it run at once??

    i never thought id ask that question.
  • tekhna, on 03/10/2009, -1/+39The only reason commas exist is for clear punctuation.
  • Mocib, on 03/10/2009, -0/+38Images from the end of the video: http://personal.inet.fi/atk/kjh2348fs/pics/ssd_awe ...
  • GregZielinski, on 03/09/2009, -1/+38Speed is money. How fast you wanna go?
  • Chupacabraz, on 03/10/2009, -0/+37Uhhh, yes the drives ARE a time thing. The faster the processor can get the data from the drive, the faster the programs loads.
  • Tubal22, on 03/10/2009, -2/+39So. It can play Crysis. Who cares how much it costs.
  • 1what1, on 03/10/2009, -0/+35...then crysis is not worth playing.
  • enantiodromia, on 03/10/2009, -1/+36i feel damn lucky to have one myself. but if you live in silicon valley, friend me and i'll see what i can do
  • dshortey, on 03/10/2009, -5/+39I came in .2 seconds!
  • ripple123, on 03/10/2009, -4/+37that loaded so fast, they should stop calling it loading and start calling it sneezing. as in, "this computer sneezes windows and office in 2 seconds" or something. or, if your into playing old fps shooters, you could say, "this thing sneezes blood really well"
  • thelastcivilian, on 03/10/2009, -0/+33Bulk discount if you're buying 24!
  • cherwilco, on 03/10/2009, -2/+35macbook air
  • HellifIno, on 03/10/2009, -2/+34Still using that fossil? Try one of the free or open source readers. Foxit works for me.
  • inactive, on 03/10/2009, -0/+31".... so i made a RAID0 and we giggled like little girls."


    Some day I too wish to giggle like little girls...
  • borsaid, on 03/10/2009, -0/+30Why do people insist on making posts when it's obvious they have absolutely no idea what they're talking about?
  • oveedrx, on 03/10/2009, -1/+30I dont even know how reader is still around with foxit

    Reader < Foxit
  • ArthurSucks, on 03/10/2009, -4/+33In five years we'll laugh about how slow this computer is and how by then would no warrant such spectacle.
  • Mast3rDigg3r, on 03/10/2009, -1/+30how can there be so much stupid in one post?
  • adamkmccarthy, on 03/10/2009, -0/+28lol - still cheaper than a pimped out mac pro :D
  • KMartSheriff, on 03/10/2009, -1/+26Who the ***** dugg you down? Foxit kicks ass. ***** Adobe Reader.
  • RyanBlueThunder, on 03/10/2009, -1/+24in the yeaarrr 2000?
  • directedition, on 03/10/2009, -1/+23And yet is somehow more expensive...
  • ligyron, on 03/10/2009, -11/+32If you watched the video, then you'd know that it can.
  • hardeep1singh, on 03/10/2009, -0/+21I'm sure it can run multiple instances of crysis.
  • plague, on 03/10/2009, -1/+22Your comment made me laugh.
  • idolwalrus, on 03/10/2009, -2/+23If you get a pop up from porn, just have someone else to get on top of it for you
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