that they will fail after certain number of writes. Unless your supercomputer that don't write on those SSDs, otherwise you will be replacing SSDs periodically...

I heared he's blind in one eye and can't spell out the other one.

Didn't I hear the newer processors in a desktop will reach 200 tflops around then? Sandy Bridge 120? One after that 200?

I don't know if that's such a good thing if a year later a $2000 desktop has even 1/2 its speed.

Not sure though

I'm betting it still can't break 60 fps in Crysis. LOL!

*Snicker* @ Flash Gordon.

I was thinking Gordon the mute hero of the Half Life franchise.

Next month, we plan to benchmark it using Sandra and see how many FPS it can run Crysis.

haha!

My "rough estimates" would be 3.2mil US$ for the flash drives (12,800$ a TB for X25-E 64GB). That would account for 13% of the total budget.

Going with 300GB 15k SAS 3Gb HD's would be about 900 drives, costing 96,000$, or about .5% of the budget or 3% of the cost (yeah probably 50 times more power consuption and heat production) of the Intel drives.

This comes out to a handy size of 4096 SSD's. Going with Intel's 250MB/s read 180MB/s write that gives a total theoretical output of 1000GB/s read 720GB/s write.

Why do I need seem underwhelmed by these numbers? I don't really see the purpose of all those SSD's when on can load up on memory instead.

24GB of ECC DDR3 for about 1,500$. 2731 (64TB) of these bad boys for 4.1 million. Which is more cost than the hard drives, and an order of magnitude faster.

If I was totally interested in IOps, I'd go with 256TB of SAS and the money I'd save would double the amount of memory to 128TB.

OH WAIT...I totally forget about Intel kickbacks and whatnot, so I'd have to use some Hollywood accounting to figure it out now! I'll just watch a BD-rip of 9 now instead of thinking anymore.

/bored at work on a Remembrance Day, shout out to the troops!

Drashek, I dare you to make less sense than I do!