Data Recorder Project

There are some 48 2.5" bay cases that are 4U like:
http://www.rackmountpro.com/product....2757&catid=208

Just nothing from supermicro =\

With 48 bays, you can have 6 raid cards to get 6 GB/s seq write

Sweet. I'm going to write this up and give it to the lab manager and see what he things. I wish i could take pictures for you guys.. but when I get it, I'll post scores for you.

Just priced out the machine to $36,024

RAM 18x 4GB DDR3 1333 = $2295.00
Supermicro x8dah+f = $487.00
LSI MegaRAID SAS 9260-8i 3x $480.00 = $1440.00
Supermicro SC216A-R900UB = $826.00
Photofast 2.5 256GB V5 SATA SSD (Rated Performance 270MB/S read, 270MB/S write, 300MB/S host interface ) 24x 256GB (We might not get all of these and just get enough for 2TB, then I'd just get two controllers) @$1,249.00 = $29,976.00

Just took a peak at the insides of the Photofast V5 and its very interesting. They are doing internal raid 0 on two Indilinx controllers, which is why they have such mad speed. Very cool they fit it in a 2.5" form factor. OCZ is doing a 2/4 controller configuration in 3.5" drives.

*update*

Originally Posted by PhotofastSSD

Oh. I forgot to mention, Photofast HAS designed a 512GB V5! Same performance. If you want those, let me know and I can ask for the lead time. Obviously, that is a TON of flash, so I'll have to check and see if your quantity is possible. It is a slightly lower cost per GB than 256GB.

Pricing is per SSD, regardless of quantity as these are niche, build-to-order SSDs and don't cost Photofast any less to build in sub 100 quantities.

V5 256GB: $1299
V5 512GB: $1999

I wish the 8GB DDR3 sticks weren't so expensive, I would of loved to go with max ram on this one... just to say we have it? Why not?