Raid of 24 Samsung SSD's tested

We all know that the SSD market is being developed at a rapid pace and it seems that new models are released every other day. To stay ahead of the competition, it's possible to cluster multiple SSD's into a raid configuration, thus reaching even greater performance than single disks. The most extreme version of this so far can be found on Youtube, where a system is equipped with two raidcontrollers and a total of 24 Samsung 256 GB SSD's. The disks were linked together in a raid0 configuration, providing a total storage capacity of 6 TB.

The video demonstrates how the setup of 4 solid-state-drives reaches a writing speed of 2 GB/s, which is the limit of the PCI-Express connector on the fastest raidcontroller. An interesting thing is the speed at which programs start up; where a single SSD is already faster than a raid configuration of 10.000 or 15.000 RPM hard disks, these 24 SSD-setup was able to boot 53 Windows Vista programs in just over 18 seconds.

The SSD-army video can be viewed in HD resolution by clicking on the image below. 

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