Samsung 24 SSD Raid Viral Marketing

How do you buzz on the Internet? One of the most successful ways is a viral marketing campaign. Samsung thought of a great way of promoting their new 256GB MLC Solid State Drives. They decided to create an uber-geeky computer system powered by 24 of their SSDs in Raid mode and show of the video at Youtube.

24 drives equals a total storage of 6 Terabytes. The other system specs are as impressive. They added a combination of two Intel 3.2GHz QX9775 Quad-Core cpus, two ATI Radeon HD 4870 X2 cards, 4GB of 800MHz FB-DIMM DDR2 SDRAM, two Corsair HX1000W power supply units, an Adaptec 5 Series RAID card, an Areca 1680ix-24 RAID card and of course the 24 256GB MLC Solid State Drives.

How fast was the system after all? They managed to top 2 Gigabytes of sequential write and reading speed. They performed some tests like loading all Microsoft Office applications (in 0.5 seconds), all 53 apps of the Windows start menu (in 18.09 seconds), copying a 700 Megabyte DVD rip (0.8 seconds) or recycling 700 files with a total size of 5.6 Gigabytes (instantly).

The viral marketing campaign is highly successful with more than 250K views on Youtube already. Can you imaging running a system like this? What are your thoughts, let us know!

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Tags: ati radeon, corsair psu, intel cpu, samsung, samsung ssd, solid state drive, ssd, viral marketing, youtube video
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11 Responses to “Samsung 24 SSD Raid Viral Marketing”

1. BoomtownBossierCity says:

   March 10, 2009 at 3:44 pm

   really impresive

   Reply
2. buha says:

   March 10, 2009 at 4:08 pm

   YOU mean 24 x 256G

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3. St. John says:

   March 10, 2009 at 4:16 pm

   You mean GB not MB.

   Reply
   • Martin says:

     March 10, 2009 at 5:05 pm

     corrected, thanks.

     Reply
4. Daniel says:

   March 10, 2009 at 7:04 pm

   maaaaaan, I wish I had that much money to drop on a new system like that

   Reply

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