Samsung SSD Awesomeness

We took 24 256GB Samsung MLC SSD's and put them in RAID to make this awesome computer! See how we did it, and what the results were!
For more information on these drives, check out www.samsungssd.com

[@roukanzayev]

2GB/s and it can be done only by single NVMe SSD by now. Technology flies so fast!

[@MadalinIgnisca]

Than put 24 nvmes in raid 0 :D

[@justtwoseats]

As of today you can push around 7GB/s on one SSD, and PCIe 5 is right around the corner. Won't be long before we're north of 10

[@DVDiclan]

10 years later and you can now go faster with just one NVME SSD

[@pnnytx]

a cheap NVMe SSD can outperform 'em.

[@one_step_sideways]

​@@pnnytx probably not in terms of IOPS, actually. IOPS is most important. And those MLC drives are going to last a while

[@GarrettDerp]

My $300 smartphone can do 1.5 GB/s off of its internal storage. This video is epic, hilarious, and nostalgic all at the same time. What a time to be alive.

[@countFtw.]

"disk defrag" you're officially killing your SSD

[@serratedwarstep]

OSes today should recognize when you are using an SSD and disable the defrag option for the drive(s) so the technologically-challenged people don't ruin their SSD.

[@sighisoaraa]

It was just a demonstration of the SSD's speed.

[@dylansands2627]

Joel Hinson ACtually it's on the ssd manufacture to do this and they have so yeah. When youy "defrag" it just runs a reblocking command in the firmware to organize the drives

[@Towlieee]

If your SSD is ruined by a simple defrag, your SSD was on its way out already anyways. Only the first ssd's suffered such problems, you have to think, if you actually USE your SSD, its being written to and read from all the time. One of my first SSD's that I still run on a backup computer, that was old tech, has over 34 terabytes of reads, and over 28tB of writes on it, and its a 240gB ssd! Note, I'm saying a defrag is recommended, or will even help. (Although this is argueable on some SSD controllers, its still not generally something that is needed). But to say it will destroy an ssd, is the same thing as saying USING your ssd will destroy it. If it scares you to put your SSD to full load for say 20-30 minutes, then I'd be scared to use the SSD in general!

[@Towlieee]

I image my daily drivers SSD every 2 to 4 weeks usually. 512 gigabytes that is generally around 250gB full. What do I image it to? None other than a secondary SSD through my hot swap ultrabay so it goes nice and fast. SSD's of today (well and even 3 years ago when you made your post) are much stronger than SSD's of 2009 and prior. Keeping heat down is the main priority! Some of the enterprise ssd's used in servers have rediculous amounts of available read/write cycles before degrading. Of course, they are a lot more costly than consumer ssd's.

[@traviseddy2386]

For the dumb dumbs saying its to slow... THE VIDEO IS 5 YEARS OLD

[@carcarlos777]

Your comment is now 5 years old...

[@MegaButze]

@@carcarlos777 Your comment is now 5 years old.

[@BensoftMedia]

Defragging an SSD? WHY?!!

[@caleb5962]

For the lolz

[@therealdeal6659]

Pepsi Epilepsy and destroy themselves

[@Trabucco0]

to your computer - FILIPINO EDITION Hehehe, says who?

[@paulhendrix8599]

I like coming back to this every once in a while when I hear about new SSD speeds. 5GB/s? No problem now.

[@sanshinron]

To those watching it: DON'T DEFRAG YOUR SSD!

[@tk5800thesecond]

+sanshinron why?

[@sanshinron]

TK Jones Because SSDs have exactly the same access time regardless if the file is fragmented all over the place or not. The only thing you achieve by defragmenting a SSD is decreasing its lifespan.

[@tk5800thesecond]

+sanshinron interesting, how does it shorten the life span?

[@sanshinron]

SSDs, especially earlier generations, have a limited amount of times a cell can be rewritten before it "dies". The impact of defragmenting may or may not be significant, but it's still pointless.

[@OnionChoppingNinja]

to give a bit more technical answer: SSD's like conventional hard drives are divided into sectors. your data is spread out over these sectors. When you defrag a drive you move your data around over these sectors, basically: you do a read job on one sector and a write job on another. While sectors of a conventional HDD can virtually handle an infinite amount of read/ write instructions, the sectors of an SSD can not. Read/write them to often and they will "break", corrupting the data in that sector. Add to that as mentioned before that defraging gives you 0 performance increase , you're effectively decrease the life expectancy of your SSD for no reason. Things are not as bleak as they may seem though; as mentioned before; the impact is quite insignificant. you can completely fill an SSD and format it again 1000x and still not notice a performance decrease. Normal consumers probably won't even read write every single sector on an SSD that often. Things are different in a datacenter where these limitations actually used to be a major concern with earlier SSD's.

[@Sinbad547]

i was a bit underwhelmed when i saw 2gb, after seeing your comment i realised how old the vid was haha

[@Rockband2991]

Try this with modern ssds

[@Awgez24]

How did they time travel and get Gravity in 2009? Sandra Bullocks wasnt even born then.

[@cyrfung]

2020 future person here. We still haven't figured out what DVD it was.

[@iamismeallright]

imagine this technology a few years from now. it's going to be epic.

[@willithahutt]

aged pretty well i would say

[@videosuperhighway7655]

Yeah you can get a 15tb ssd now

[@tom.e]

Make a 2015-version of it!

[@fifoffjfufs]

The really amazing part about this is that it was done on Vista.

[@pkrisnanda]

hi. just came back to comment on one of my favorite ads on youtube many years ago. this video is the first time I heard about SSDs!

[@1blackice1]

10 years later, we can do 5GB/sec on a single NVMe drive.

[@pnnytx]

WD Black SN850: hold my gen4 pcie

[@PlazmaCatcherYiffMaster]

Nice work defragging SSD's "I.T Genius"

[@Jolinator]

+Plazma Catcher this was back in the day, acura days.

[@MJ-uk6lu]

It's 2019 and 6TB on SSDs are still impressive. Also those speeds, while achievable with a single or dual drives, they are still respectable.

[@appsjuragan7611]

This video need an Update :D

[@AdamKyleAnderson]

Oh for fuck sakes peoplle, get over it. Yes it is recomended not to defrag an SSD, but doing it once or twice is not going to damage the bloody thing.

[@stevenzhang3979]

especially when there's barely anything in the drives

[@Destroyer954]

also not a lot of people knew it back in 2009, i mean it wasnt general knowledge

[@leemark572]

Samsung SSD program is really really very good..benchmark function with harddisk is wonderful..

[@MrEduedu123]

DON'T DEFRAG SSD!!!!

[@ZeroXTRL]

this video has to be redone with todays hardware

[@KitWriter]

Almost 9 years, and this video still makes me laugh.

[@HemantGiri]

we came so far now get just samsung 950pro m.2 and enjoy more speed then this lol

[@Dankboi420]

yeah I can't imagine what will happen 10 year later...

[@mbed0123]

+William Peng I literally just got done, saying that to my wife.

[@mbed0123]

+Hemant Giri I still remember buying my 2 OCZ vertex turbos and raiding them just like this guy without any kind of support and or trim available at the time. I remember spending over $500 a ssd for these turbos and only having one of them fail over a year plus of use in a raid setup that was never supported to begin with. Got an RMA albeit, but man......the performance was INSANE at the time. Hence why you "pay" for them big advancements at the time being....

[@HemantGiri]

+YOUDIEMOFO agree with u

[@goeiecool9999]

Meanwhile in 2017 They're getting 11GB/s reads on 24 SSD raid 0

[@DoubleT091]

It's when the computer uses two or more drives (connected to a RAID controller) to read and write data. In short terms: If you have two drives, half of the data is stored on D0 and the other half on D1. This allows the computer to read and write data much faster - for certain tasks, anyways - than only one of these drives.

[@ruinsaneornot]

Fast forward to 2015, now a similar performance can be achieved with a finger-sized SSD! techgage.com/news/samsung-unveils-first-pcie-3-0-x4-based-m-2-ssd-delivering-speeds-of-over-2gbs/

[@sergiourquijo4000]

funny how you can do better today whith just a 960 pro mvme ssd

[@jdubzisfaded]

yay. I love my vertex 3 running at 500mbps. SSD's are evolving so brilliantly

[@codebeat4192]

SSD and defrag.... sigh

[@Plarndude]

I tried an SSD once... no idea where it's hiding now... Anyway, I installed it on Dad's old XP laptop. BIG MISTAKE!!! It was far slower, it drove me more insane than usual. I discovered that SSD is really only useful when it's SATA with a newer OS, like Linux or Windows 10. The combo of XP and PATA was utterly horrible.

[@hailgod1]

And now, 5 years after this video was made, you can have a samsung 840 pro 256gb with samsung's RAPID technology and get up to 1gb/s read/write.

[@rusticbumpkin]

defrag essentially moves data around on the disk so that contiguous files are closer to each other on the physical platter(s) and not broken up. this process involves shuffling files around many many times, performing many "write" operations. this isn't an issue with HDD's as the disk media is very durable. however, the flash memory in an SSD is much less durable and has a limited number of times it can be changed. defragging an ssd would use up many of those writes, shortening it's life.

[@mrwhitelight92]

Love how this was 10 years ago! Really cool, nonetheless.

[@kingmortz]

Very very cool of these guys. Especially considering it's two years ago. They set the bar very high. But man oh man those raid controller cards would be expensive - let alone, of course, the 24 drives.

[@billhgong]

And after over a decade, Linus is playing with 100GiB/s of raw power - 50x of improvement over a decade, not bad I say 😶

[@appsjuragan7611]

2018 this video still ... AWESOME!

[@TheLocalMoonman]

oh well. that means we have come a long way in SSd tech since 2009

[@aaronmugabe2125]

YOU MAKE VISTA LOOK AWESOME. UNBELIEVABLE.

[@tomstockmail]

You don't need to defragment a SSD because defragmenting is meant to move pieces of a file closer together on a platter/traditional disk drive. on SSD it's just as fast to read one section as the other, whereas on a platter it takes time to read from the inner to the outer of the circle.

[@Marhfac]

2 years ago, and still, this shit is fast!

[@WeAreTwoDoorsDown]

Exactly. I was just pointing out how fast technology changes.

[@FixedHDD]

what a long way we've come... My SM951 512GB M.2 SSD achieves 1.6 GB/s as a single drive... craaazy

[@SazanD1]

Was thinking the same. My intel 750 writes @ 2.4 GB/s :D

[@Fantasma25]

They should remake this video with current SSDs

[@ut2k4wikichici]

+1 i'd love to see it with a bunch of HUGE ssds

[@EIRTeam]

they do determine the speed of calculation, but the hard drive determines the speed of writing, let me explain: if you want to copy a file in the same hard drive the only factor is the hard drive speed, but if you want to copy between two the factors are the ram speed/size and the speed of both hard drives

[@rusticbumpkin]

that and this video is 3 years old. ssd's have come a LONG way in the last 3 years.

[@MegaLolStorm]

Cleaning this computer sure will be lots of fun

[@alanau8604]

Still watching in 2018 with NVMe SSD PC

[@gingatim]

People, remember that this video is nearly 4 years old, SSD's were only just coming on to the market at this point. This could be done easier nowadays.

[@MrBananapie89]

it basically shorten the life span of the ssd but does not apply for hdd. defragging is basically rearranging the content on the storage device example cleaning a book shelf hence finding your stuff faster as less junk is arround

[@Barcrest]

@Maul9999 You don't and it says so in the vid. "Power supplies connected by soldering pins 14 and a few ground wires together. This gives them a common ground and connects PS_ON to let the motherboard control them directly. Power was then shared between both supplies evenly; one EPS12v each, drives and graphics split over." Hope that clears it up for you.

[@phyco126]

At current prices, $4,800 with Crucial's M4 256GB drives. Not to mention how much faster current drives are - I want to see them redo this video with 24 Samsung 840 Pros. :) As far as prices back then, I imagine 10s of thousands...

[@RPHammon]

It's a combo of both, the SSDs will transfer data faster to the card for processing.

[@xsredx13]

Show a video of how quickly Windows installed, or common games! These are the metrics we gamers and hackers love to see.

[@inlovewithi]

The fire extinguisher is just a joke trying to maintain the happy go lucky feel of the video. If you can't instantly recognize that, than I don't know what else I can tell you. Since they're trying to show how fast this setup is they showed how fast it can defrag the hard drives. They're not making a statement that people should, just showing the speed. Most people watching this video don't know much about SSDs, so it's also good to show that no matter how much you shake it, they won't damage.

[@Vgamerguy]

You are correct but if you wait to "pause" on a certain ending frame of them showing you how they built it, it shows it hits 2108 mb making it over two gigs :3

[@CzechRiot]

I'm no tech guy but it did cross my mind... I didn't know ssd could even be defragd, but i don't know much about anything anyway.

[@Stabby666]

Funny how much better SSDs have become since this video. I have 4 Samsung 840PRO drives in RAID0 on an Adaptec controller in my gaming rig, and they hit over 2000MB/sec - so the same speed as the 24 shown in this video :)

[@circletech7745]

It's funny how now in 2015 we have SSDs like the intel 750 series that hit 2.3GB/s right out of the box with no RAID cards or other custom janky solutions like the one above.

[@WizOfAwesomeness]

YES i was browsing and I was trying to find something with AWESOMENESS or awesomeness in the title!!

[@ittelgimaf]

This needs to be redone now with the latest hardware that is out! With SATA III and the faster SSD drives that are out now I am curious to see how fast it would be now!

[@SweetMonia]

Awesome, this is the fastest PC I have ever seen!!!

[@theholypotato3762]

If this computer could talk, "open 54 programs at once? Just give me 18 seconds..."

[@sgmz610]

What is the .bat file you used to open all start menu items at once? Might not work in windows 8 but I want to try it to see a comparison.

[@clack1]

This video is nearly 5 years old.

[@ValugaTheLord]

SSDs are magical beings they can calculate every second of your games, theoretically you dont even need a PC, just use Harddrives in RAID for your unlimited PC desires.

[@jamesmillerjo]

Please stop saying "for now" things. In video they didn't say anything about 1990 pc comparisons.

[@RaynerDehua]

Today a single NVME can beat this entire raid system

[@hotfreshrider]

I like how this channel has 1,424 subscribers when it was a once trick pony advertising campaign.

[@guygamer36]

I will never buy another corsair ssd again after watching this awesomeness. Genius video. This is what we new builders want to see. Not jargan that makes us vomit in our mouth. Real proof in the pudding lol.

[@DooyevenTriforce]

Because RAM discs are limited, take up valuable ram for programs away, and ram drives (in not running it with one that has a battery) will erase the information after a restart. But it all depends on if you get one with a battery (the ram drive board, like the gigabyte I-RAM) or not.

[@BrawndoQC]

@SuperMangn We're in 2012, you do know also Plasma tv's don't get burn-ins anymore. We rent and use only server grade equipment. And there's absolutely no comparison at all in I/O speed, which result in fluid and fast interface to the customers. Same goes for my Air, damn last benchmark I got 210/240 Write/Read in sequential. Mechanical hard drives are soon to be instinct, but I understand that resistance to change is a natural human reaction.

[@jamescollins6085]

Brawndo Ahh, I remember 2012. It was a good year!

[@ShaktipatSeer2]

KING OF TEH COMPUTERZ !

[@FunOrange42]

The odds of one failing and thus losing all your data are exponentially large

[@Spec4D]

Of course the data on SSDs fragment. It's just that there is no big advantage to sequential reads over random access reads on an SSD. In other words defraging an SSD is pointless and even damaging when you consider that SSDs allow a (very large) finite number of writes. I think the point of that demonstration was to show how reading through the entire contents of the SSD array could be done in seconds. Just don't try it at home if you value having a long lifespan on your SSDs.

[@mastr323]

This video was made over 3 years ago.. Nowadays you can achieve these exact speeds with only 4x60GB SSDs. 240GB storage at around 2000mB/s read/write. It would cost you around $210 from Newegg.com.

[@benrhysjenkins]

I know, but at the time it said over 2GB and the figure was 2018.95. Most people think that 1000MB is simply a GB, they probably forgot ;)

[@Fuckoffgoogle25]

so how does this compare to a single NVME SSD like samsung 960 evo?

[@mpmpm]

No. Also for HDD's: 2GB=2000MB. If most (IT-)people do it wrong, doesn't make it correct. Even a judge did a 100% faulty ruling in this. You and LostInNumbersMusic are both (not intentional) wrong and you are both talking about GiB's and MiB's if you talk about a factor of 1024 and not a factor of 1000. The fact that some marketing-people started to use 1 kB=1024 byte is just 100% wrong. They ONLY did that because 2^10 is 10^3 close to each other. Wikipedia: gibibyte.

[@Trig0r]

We need a new version of this done with the 840Pro drives...

[@Mike07P]

I wouldn't know what to do with that for the first like hour. Id just be amazed

[@CzechRiot]

my favorite part was the throwing out the window dvd test.

[@mlaroya6200]

I hope they make an updated video using the current generation processor

[@danielleehall]

Every time someone defrags a SSD, a kitten dies.

[@IhateYoutube]

Hardly.... The price of SSD will drop as there is more market penetration and cost of scale will go down.. But the hardware to run the drives will still be plenty pricey next year.. When was the last time Intel had a major breakthrough in CPU's???

[@NateRist]

I'd love to see this done on mac, maybe demo the speed by exporting a 1-2 hour video from final cut pro X

[@bluxurt]

that's was good! considering this was done almost 4 years ago.

[@Taveras2011]

Awesome custom dude!

[@BrawndoQC]

For others.. One of the big myths and major barriers to SSD adoption is the myth of low write endurance. Write endurance is the number of write cycles to a block of flash memory. This implies that writing larger chunks of information to your SSDs sustains them better than writing millions of small chunks. The fear is that over time SSDs will become unrealiable due to the limited number of write cycles per block.. Do your homework, google the myths and debunk them for yourselves.

[@WeAreTwoDoorsDown]

Imagine this with modern 2012 ssd's... Sata 6gb/s, top of the line stuff... HOLY SHIT!

[@xAelderon]

@AtomicHercules No, are you kidding me? It has nothing to do with how much time it took, it's all about what it accomplished.

[@FennecTECH]

Inded it does and you dont but it is a good way to show the access speed of those disks, and that was the entire machnes perpous to exist

[@leicaman]

And they also broke the record for the most BSODs in a minute. It had to be measured in gigahertz.

[@tehkill3r]

thing i wanted to see, starting up photoshop, startup of windows, loading times of various games including crysis.

[@yesssigotmail]

@stovnergutt i wish. raid controllers would hold the ssds back. the ssds in this video are actually held back. since they theoretically could have topped 6gb/s

[@TezyTezyTez]

how did u make the images of you flying around the room?

[@sgfreak96]

They aren't trolls, they actually think I don't know. And even if I checked the description, I wouldn't bother looking for the date. Even if it was 2008, you'd be dumb to say this cost 60 grand...20-25k at most. Plus if you watched the video, you'd know theyre an advertising team. Those hdds were probably given to them by samsung to make the video, I doubt they paid.

[@WTFRawrtube]

Also at the end it shows they got even higher.

[@SAMIMYS]

now the problem is: where you gonna put them?