zrath

Samsung UK has been throwing money at people to make cool and wacky ads for their stuff.
A coworker e-mailed a link to this:


It's a computer using a RAID array of 24 Solid State Drives (SSDs) of 256gig each.
So that's 6 terabytes of storage, with no moving parts.
So this makes the computer insanely fast, as you can see from the video.
One slight caveat though: each 256gig SSD costs $700.
Argh...

Meanwhile, in Wales, sheep are covered in LEDs and turned into big pixels for a massive display:


This last one is courtesy siege.

Neat stuff!
But every time I see the abbreviation SSD, I think of Super Star Destroyer... :)