Ubergeek: 24 SSD in a Raid Array (Viral Marketing)

Samsung has put together a “viral marketing” movie that shows a totally geeky (and unpractical) experiment: getting 24 solid state drives (SSD) to work together simultaneously. Obviously the setup achieves incredible an performance. To name a few: “Loaded ALL Microsoft Office in 0.5 seconds”, “sequential (read) performance: 2121.29MB/Sec “.

Marketing aside, it makes a good case of remind us how disk access has become problematic in every computing performance. Now, the downside of such a setup is that you have 24 points of critical data failure instead of one…