[colecampbell666]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=96dWOEa4Djs

Yeah, a 6TB RAID array isn't special, but if it has an estimated read rate of about 5.3GB/s it is. (their rate was capped by the cards they used.)

[Flipside]

That'd be good for Dwarf Fortress, that game seriously hogs Hard-Drive time when the Fortress gets big

[blackhole]

LOL

Here, let's drop it out a window and see if we can rip the entire DVD faster then the time it takes to hit the ground. AND IT DID.

That was simply awesome, even if totally impractical.

[Nuke]

this is old

[Flipside]

So am I, happens to all of us

[colecampbell666]

this is old

I saw it sevral months ago, but I figured it'd get some s here.

[Nuke]

i wanted to get an ssd drive for my laptop to maybe improve battery life, but im unsure of the form factor (and im out of money too).

[colecampbell666]

That's a good idea.

[Bob-san]

this is old

I saw it sevral months ago, but I figured it'd get some s here.

Not really. Most anyone who keeps up with tech saw this marketing department's little game. Not bad really. Makes me wish I worked in Marketing, though.

[Davros]

woah, maybe its time for "The Sacred 6 Terrabyte Of Gaming Goodness"

[Charismatic]

I loved the vid. It was fast and awesome.

[colecampbell666]

I thought it was obnoxious.

[haloboy100]

I wish I had a computer like that...

Then I'd be able to play Mass Effect without it crashing every five seconds.

[Nuke]

crashes have nothing to do with hard drive performance, bad code that cant adapt to a wide range of hardware performance does.

i can see ssd arrays as becoming a new standard for drive performance. if they can get 256 gigers down to a hundred bucks, i can see myself using an array of 4 of them in conjunction with a normal 1tb hd for backup in a raid 10 config (not sure if thats possible). though im not sure how that would affect performance. might be better just to do an os script to copy the striped set over every week or so.

[haloboy100]

crashes have nothing to do with hard drive performance, bad code that cant adapt to a wide range of hardware performance does.

Yeah, but at least I'd be getting over 5 frames a second.

[Fury]

Hard drive performance does not have that big of an impact to how well a game runs. It however affects how fast your games load. In game that doesn't use "levels" in traditional sense, but dynamically loads areas into memory before you enter them might see an improvement. For those games a regular 7200RPM hard drive does just fine. CPU, RAM and GPU are what affects your fps in most scenarios.

[haloboy100]

Yeah, but notice how, aside from the array, they had two ATI cards in crossfire and some monster (I think?) CPU power going as well.

[colecampbell666]

Yeah, but notice how, aside from the array, they had two ATI cards in crossfire and some monster (I think?) CPU power going as well.

Two 4870X2s (4 4870s) and two Intel 9775 CPUs. (8 cores)

The more hard drives you have, the faster the game loads. Loading means that it puts it into the RAM, once it's there the HDD is basically not a factor.