Video: Samsung SSD RAID "Awesome" Advertisement

So this is an ad, despite the rough-edged, Impact-laden amateur patina it has been given by the marketing firm hired to create it. Nevertheless, the thing they have created is interesting: a computer with 24 256GB Samsung SSD drives chained together in one RAID device, making for some very quick application launching. You could build the same machine yourself for around $23k—and that's just for the drives.

[#1 posted by zuzu , March 9, 2009 11:01 AM]

Wwwyzzerdd: And after this 90-day trial, you will be judged and sentenced to a lifetime of interactive sports, news, and information. And we will continue to draw from your account, because banks don't care. It's not their money.

[#2 posted by zuzu , March 9, 2009 11:35 AM]

Nevermind my previous comment; I guess the video before was mis-pasted to be a "20 years of Yahoo! mail" ad or something.

2GB/s and loading all those apps in seconds... that's how all modern personal computers should respond.

[#3 posted by Decay , March 9, 2009 12:31 PM]

the red-haired girl at the end is me :) Hello everyone!

[#4 posted by Camillo Miller , March 9, 2009 12:48 PM]

YAY! Someone finally found a way to run Vista quite as fast as Leopard on a Mac Pro!

[#5 posted by SamSam , March 9, 2009 1:52 PM]

Camillo Miller: that's especially funny, as I've had to re-boot my non-quite-a-year-old MacbookPro running Leopard for the third time today. I guess I shouldn't be using all these super-bleeding-edge programs like "Firefox" and "Photoshop"... ;-)

Anyway.. that sounds pretty neat. How much would you have to spend to get a Beowulf cluster running at these speeds?

[#6 posted by dogmatique , March 9, 2009 2:10 PM]

Anyone else spot Joel Veitch (rathergood) sat round the table?

One presumes this is his day job...

[#7 posted by Primar , March 10, 2009 2:56 AM]

An advert? Probably.
Still great fun to watch? Definitely.

Now, to find $23k somewhere...

[#8 posted by Anonymous , March 10, 2009 4:10 AM]

Great display of SSD, but not an understanding of the Tech, for SSD owners a note of caution, defragging is both unnecessary and damaging to the drives, shortening their life considerably.

[#9 posted by ridl , March 10, 2009 10:17 AM]

This ad company just won the Internet... front page reddit and bbg within a day!

Free hair dye all around!

[#10 posted by Anonymous , March 10, 2009 10:58 AM]

Am I the only one that noticed the "Being a marketing company" bit within the first 10 seconds of the advert.

People seem to be going on about it be secretly an advert but as far as I can tell, they've not hidden that fact whatsoever. I might be missing something here and if I am please point that out.

As far as an advert goes I'd rather see this thank rubbish banner adverts and pointless tv spots.

People seem to love conspiracies about being tricked...I'm not seeing that.

As for the video itself now.

Firstly I feel the defrag was a bit pointless as too was the use of vista. I wonder how much performance was lost thanks to using vista..

I'd love to have chance to get some real tests out of that.

[#11 posted by mbourgon , March 10, 2009 1:55 PM]

I'm with @10 - how about some real performance tests? Specifically read/write in a non-sequential environment.