- (5) LSI Mega RAID SAS/SATA 9260-8i raid cards
- (2) 1000W Thermaltake TRX-1000M power supplies
- (1) Thermaltake case
- (1) Super Micro X8DTH-I X58 Server motherboard
- (2) Intel Xeon 5550 CPUs
- 48GB 1333MHz of Patriot DDR3 ECC-Registered memory (12) PS34G13ER-E
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A sustained rate of 155,000 IOPS/s is generated by using forty 256GB TorqX SSDs connected to five LSI SAS PCI-E controllers. According to the TechPowerUP article, the system supposedly is able to "rip an entire Blu-ray in 0.9 seconds." Clearly, this is impossible as no optical drive can manage that. What more likely happened was that a reporter misquoted Patriot.
The system is capable of making a duplicate copy of a "Blu-ray rip" on the 40-drive SSD array in a blistering fast 0.9 seconds. That's at least an 8GB file copy in under a second. We don't know about you but, load times be-gone!
Sabre (Julian) 92.5% Stock 04 STI
Good choice putting $4,000 rims on your 1990 Honda Civic. That's like Betty White going out and getting her tits done.
Holy Crap! That is some quick transfer and processing.
We have this evidence camera that has a 130 MP sensor, but it is all aligned in a one pixel wide vertical array. It is used to take ultra high rez evidence/scene photos.
Problem is we have to put it on a stepper motor rotating stand in the center of a room to document it. It is slaved to a G5 and takes about 30 mins to complete a room.
Hook a rig like that up to the camera... that would be awesome.
Now where to store all that data...
Patience is the ability to idle your motor when you feel like stripping your gears
