Gigi4 Wrote:
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> OMG, how does something like this costs? 10000$ ?
These are the Samsung MLC drives (and sponsored by them no doubt!), which currently cost £500-600 for a 256gb model (which is what's used here), and they cost a lot more than that not very long ago.
£500 x 24 = £12000
just for drives. If you were to add in the oct-core CPU setup, Skulltrail motherboard, quad graphics, 2 RAID controllers (one of which is a grand on its own) and 2x1000W PSUs, you're looking at £16000-18000 I'd guess. And you'll need a means of storing all those SSD drives while having them all connected to a single PC of course.
Shame they didn't use Intel SLC drives - they're a good bit faster than the cheaper MLC types that most of us will end up getting.