http://www.thestandard.com./node/128343/comments comments feed. en Video: The fastest PC you may ever see http://www.thestandard.com./news/2009/03/10/video-fastest-pc-you-may-ever-see <p> <p> </p> <p>What's holding back PC performance? Hard drives! The biggest bottleneck inside a desktop or laptop is the time it takes to read and write data to and from a disk. A <a href="http://www.tomshardware.com/news/Samsung-256GB-SSD,6628.html">solid state drive</a> (SSD) with no moving parts is much faster, as <a href="http://www.apple.com/macbookair/guidedtour/">MacBook Air</a> owners will attest.</p> <p>But why stop there? A Samsung marketing firm's IT guy linked 24 solid-state drives together as a RAID array, to see how much it would boost the performance of a standard PC. In the video below, the test unit opens all Microsoft Office apps in just half a second. Defragging the array takes only three seconds.</p> <p>The best news is that SSD prices are starting to come down to the point where an SSD is a reasonable upgrade. Amazon sells a <a href="http://www.amazon.com/128GB-Sata-Ssd-2-5IN-Build/dp/B001IAO8SQ/ref=pd_bbs_2?ie=UTF8&s=electronics&qid=1236712717&sr=8-2">128 gigabyte</a> model for just over $300. The speedy Samsung model used in the video, though, still costs <a href="http://www.google.com/products?q=samsung+ssd+256&oe=UTF-8&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=wf&ei=N762SY_-KJqqtQP94eT5CA&oi=property_suggestions&resnum=0&ct=property-revision&cd=1">close to a thousand dollars</a>. </p> <div><object height="344" width="425"> <p> </p> <param value="http://www.youtube.com/v/96dWOEa4Djs&color1=0xb1b1b1&color2=0xcfcfcf&hl=en&feature=player_embedded&fs=1" name="movie"></param> <param value="true" name="allowFullScreen"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/96dWOEa4Djs&color1=0xb1b1b1&color2=0xcfcfcf&hl=en&feature=player_embedded&fs=1" allowfullscreen="true" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" height="344" width="425"></embed></object></div> http://www.thestandard.com./news/2009/03/10/video-fastest-pc-you-may-ever-see#comments co:Samsung Hardware The Industry Standard Tue, 10 Mar 2009 15:45:47 -0400 Paul Boutin 128343 at http://www.thestandard.com. Video: The fastest PC you may ever see http://www.thestandard.com./news/2009/03/10/video-fastest-pc-you-may-ever-see <p> <p> </p> <p>What's holding back PC performance? Hard drives! The biggest bottleneck inside a desktop or laptop is the time it takes to read and write data to and from a disk. A <a href="http://www.tomshardware.com/news/Samsung-256GB-SSD,6628.html">solid state drive</a> (SSD) with no moving parts is much faster, as <a href="http://www.apple.com/macbookair/guidedtour/">MacBook Air</a> owners will attest.</p> <p>But why stop there? A Samsung marketing firm's IT guy linked 24 solid-state drives together as a RAID array, to see how much it would boost the performance of a standard PC. In the video below, the test unit opens all Microsoft Office apps in just half a second. Defragging the array takes only three seconds.</p> <p>The best news is that SSD prices are starting to come down to the point where an SSD is a reasonable upgrade. Amazon sells a <a href="http://www.amazon.com/128GB-Sata-Ssd-2-5IN-Build/dp/B001IAO8SQ/ref=pd_bbs_2?ie=UTF8&s=electronics&qid=1236712717&sr=8-2">128 gigabyte</a> model for just over $300. The speedy Samsung model used in the video, though, still costs <a href="http://www.google.com/products?q=samsung+ssd+256&oe=UTF-8&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=wf&ei=N762SY_-KJqqtQP94eT5CA&oi=property_suggestions&resnum=0&ct=property-revision&cd=1">close to a thousand dollars</a>. </p> <div><object height="344" width="425"> <p> </p> <param value="http://www.youtube.com/v/96dWOEa4Djs&color1=0xb1b1b1&color2=0xcfcfcf&hl=en&feature=player_embedded&fs=1" name="movie"></param> <param value="true" name="allowFullScreen"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/96dWOEa4Djs&color1=0xb1b1b1&color2=0xcfcfcf&hl=en&feature=player_embedded&fs=1" allowfullscreen="true" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" height="344" width="425"></embed></object></div> http://www.thestandard.com./news/2009/03/10/video-fastest-pc-you-may-ever-see#comments co:Samsung Hardware The Industry Standard Tue, 10 Mar 2009 15:45:47 -0400 Paul Boutin 128343 at http://www.thestandard.com. Video: The fastest PC you may ever see http://www.thestandard.com./news/2009/03/10/video-fastest-pc-you-may-ever-see <p> <p> </p> <p>What's holding back PC performance? Hard drives! The biggest bottleneck inside a desktop or laptop is the time it takes to read and write data to and from a disk. A <a href="http://www.tomshardware.com/news/Samsung-256GB-SSD,6628.html">solid state drive</a> (SSD) with no moving parts is much faster, as <a href="http://www.apple.com/macbookair/guidedtour/">MacBook Air</a> owners will attest.</p> <p>But why stop there? A Samsung marketing firm's IT guy linked 24 solid-state drives together as a RAID array, to see how much it would boost the performance of a standard PC. In the video below, the test unit opens all Microsoft Office apps in just half a second. Defragging the array takes only three seconds.</p> <p>The best news is that SSD prices are starting to come down to the point where an SSD is a reasonable upgrade. Amazon sells a <a href="http://www.amazon.com/128GB-Sata-Ssd-2-5IN-Build/dp/B001IAO8SQ/ref=pd_bbs_2?ie=UTF8&s=electronics&qid=1236712717&sr=8-2">128 gigabyte</a> model for just over $300. The speedy Samsung model used in the video, though, still costs <a href="http://www.google.com/products?q=samsung+ssd+256&oe=UTF-8&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=wf&ei=N762SY_-KJqqtQP94eT5CA&oi=property_suggestions&resnum=0&ct=property-revision&cd=1">close to a thousand dollars</a>. </p> <div><object height="344" width="425"> <p> </p> <param value="http://www.youtube.com/v/96dWOEa4Djs&color1=0xb1b1b1&color2=0xcfcfcf&hl=en&feature=player_embedded&fs=1" name="movie"></param> <param value="true" name="allowFullScreen"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/96dWOEa4Djs&color1=0xb1b1b1&color2=0xcfcfcf&hl=en&feature=player_embedded&fs=1" allowfullscreen="true" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" height="344" width="425"></embed></object></div> http://www.thestandard.com./news/2009/03/10/video-fastest-pc-you-may-ever-see#comments co:Samsung Hardware The Industry Standard Tue, 10 Mar 2009 15:45:47 -0400 Paul Boutin 128343 at http://www.thestandard.com. Video: The fastest PC you may ever see http://www.thestandard.com./news/2009/03/10/video-fastest-pc-you-may-ever-see <p> <p> </p> <p>What's holding back PC performance? Hard drives! The biggest bottleneck inside a desktop or laptop is the time it takes to read and write data to and from a disk. A <a href="http://www.tomshardware.com/news/Samsung-256GB-SSD,6628.html">solid state drive</a> (SSD) with no moving parts is much faster, as <a href="http://www.apple.com/macbookair/guidedtour/">MacBook Air</a> owners will attest.</p> <p>But why stop there? A Samsung marketing firm's IT guy linked 24 solid-state drives together as a RAID array, to see how much it would boost the performance of a standard PC. In the video below, the test unit opens all Microsoft Office apps in just half a second. Defragging the array takes only three seconds.</p> <p>The best news is that SSD prices are starting to come down to the point where an SSD is a reasonable upgrade. Amazon sells a <a href="http://www.amazon.com/128GB-Sata-Ssd-2-5IN-Build/dp/B001IAO8SQ/ref=pd_bbs_2?ie=UTF8&s=electronics&qid=1236712717&sr=8-2">128 gigabyte</a> model for just over $300. The speedy Samsung model used in the video, though, still costs <a href="http://www.google.com/products?q=samsung+ssd+256&oe=UTF-8&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=wf&ei=N762SY_-KJqqtQP94eT5CA&oi=property_suggestions&resnum=0&ct=property-revision&cd=1">close to a thousand dollars</a>. </p> <div><object height="344" width="425"> <p> </p> <param value="http://www.youtube.com/v/96dWOEa4Djs&color1=0xb1b1b1&color2=0xcfcfcf&hl=en&feature=player_embedded&fs=1" name="movie"></param> <param value="true" name="allowFullScreen"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/96dWOEa4Djs&color1=0xb1b1b1&color2=0xcfcfcf&hl=en&feature=player_embedded&fs=1" allowfullscreen="true" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" height="344" width="425"></embed></object></div> http://www.thestandard.com./news/2009/03/10/video-fastest-pc-you-may-ever-see#comments co:Samsung Hardware The Industry Standard Tue, 10 Mar 2009 15:45:47 -0400 Paul Boutin 128343 at http://www.thestandard.com. Video: The fastest PC you may ever see http://www.thestandard.com./news/2009/03/10/video-fastest-pc-you-may-ever-see <p> <p> </p> <p>What's holding back PC performance? Hard drives! The biggest bottleneck inside a desktop or laptop is the time it takes to read and write data to and from a disk. A <a href="http://www.tomshardware.com/news/Samsung-256GB-SSD,6628.html">solid state drive</a> (SSD) with no moving parts is much faster, as <a href="http://www.apple.com/macbookair/guidedtour/">MacBook Air</a> owners will attest.</p> <p>But why stop there? A Samsung marketing firm's IT guy linked 24 solid-state drives together as a RAID array, to see how much it would boost the performance of a standard PC. In the video below, the test unit opens all Microsoft Office apps in just half a second. Defragging the array takes only three seconds.</p> <p>The best news is that SSD prices are starting to come down to the point where an SSD is a reasonable upgrade. Amazon sells a <a href="http://www.amazon.com/128GB-Sata-Ssd-2-5IN-Build/dp/B001IAO8SQ/ref=pd_bbs_2?ie=UTF8&s=electronics&qid=1236712717&sr=8-2">128 gigabyte</a> model for just over $300. The speedy Samsung model used in the video, though, still costs <a href="http://www.google.com/products?q=samsung+ssd+256&oe=UTF-8&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=wf&ei=N762SY_-KJqqtQP94eT5CA&oi=property_suggestions&resnum=0&ct=property-revision&cd=1">close to a thousand dollars</a>. </p> <div><object height="344" width="425"> <p> </p> <param value="http://www.youtube.com/v/96dWOEa4Djs&color1=0xb1b1b1&color2=0xcfcfcf&hl=en&feature=player_embedded&fs=1" name="movie"></param> <param value="true" name="allowFullScreen"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/96dWOEa4Djs&color1=0xb1b1b1&color2=0xcfcfcf&hl=en&feature=player_embedded&fs=1" allowfullscreen="true" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" height="344" width="425"></embed></object></div> http://www.thestandard.com./news/2009/03/10/video-fastest-pc-you-may-ever-see#comments co:Samsung Hardware The Industry Standard Tue, 10 Mar 2009 15:45:47 -0400 Paul Boutin 128343 at http://www.thestandard.com. Video: The fastest PC you may ever see http://www.thestandard.com./news/2009/03/10/video-fastest-pc-you-may-ever-see <p> <p> </p> <p>What's holding back PC performance? Hard drives! The biggest bottleneck inside a desktop or laptop is the time it takes to read and write data to and from a disk. A <a href="http://www.tomshardware.com/news/Samsung-256GB-SSD,6628.html">solid state drive</a> (SSD) with no moving parts is much faster, as <a href="http://www.apple.com/macbookair/guidedtour/">MacBook Air</a> owners will attest.</p> <p>But why stop there? A Samsung marketing firm's IT guy linked 24 solid-state drives together as a RAID array, to see how much it would boost the performance of a standard PC. In the video below, the test unit opens all Microsoft Office apps in just half a second. Defragging the array takes only three seconds.</p> <p>The best news is that SSD prices are starting to come down to the point where an SSD is a reasonable upgrade. Amazon sells a <a href="http://www.amazon.com/128GB-Sata-Ssd-2-5IN-Build/dp/B001IAO8SQ/ref=pd_bbs_2?ie=UTF8&s=electronics&qid=1236712717&sr=8-2">128 gigabyte</a> model for just over $300. The speedy Samsung model used in the video, though, still costs <a href="http://www.google.com/products?q=samsung+ssd+256&oe=UTF-8&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=wf&ei=N762SY_-KJqqtQP94eT5CA&oi=property_suggestions&resnum=0&ct=property-revision&cd=1">close to a thousand dollars</a>. </p> <div><object height="344" width="425"> <p> </p> <param value="http://www.youtube.com/v/96dWOEa4Djs&color1=0xb1b1b1&color2=0xcfcfcf&hl=en&feature=player_embedded&fs=1" name="movie"></param> <param value="true" name="allowFullScreen"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/96dWOEa4Djs&color1=0xb1b1b1&color2=0xcfcfcf&hl=en&feature=player_embedded&fs=1" allowfullscreen="true" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" height="344" width="425"></embed></object></div> http://www.thestandard.com./news/2009/03/10/video-fastest-pc-you-may-ever-see#comments co:Samsung Hardware The Industry Standard Tue, 10 Mar 2009 15:45:47 -0400 Paul Boutin 128343 at http://www.thestandard.com. Video: The fastest PC you may ever see http://www.thestandard.com./news/2009/03/10/video-fastest-pc-you-may-ever-see <p> <p> </p> <p>What's holding back PC performance? Hard drives! The biggest bottleneck inside a desktop or laptop is the time it takes to read and write data to and from a disk. A <a href="http://www.tomshardware.com/news/Samsung-256GB-SSD,6628.html">solid state drive</a> (SSD) with no moving parts is much faster, as <a href="http://www.apple.com/macbookair/guidedtour/">MacBook Air</a> owners will attest.</p> <p>But why stop there? A Samsung marketing firm's IT guy linked 24 solid-state drives together as a RAID array, to see how much it would boost the performance of a standard PC. In the video below, the test unit opens all Microsoft Office apps in just half a second. Defragging the array takes only three seconds.</p> <p>The best news is that SSD prices are starting to come down to the point where an SSD is a reasonable upgrade. Amazon sells a <a href="http://www.amazon.com/128GB-Sata-Ssd-2-5IN-Build/dp/B001IAO8SQ/ref=pd_bbs_2?ie=UTF8&s=electronics&qid=1236712717&sr=8-2">128 gigabyte</a> model for just over $300. The speedy Samsung model used in the video, though, still costs <a href="http://www.google.com/products?q=samsung+ssd+256&oe=UTF-8&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=wf&ei=N762SY_-KJqqtQP94eT5CA&oi=property_suggestions&resnum=0&ct=property-revision&cd=1">close to a thousand dollars</a>. </p> <div><object height="344" width="425"> <p> </p> <param value="http://www.youtube.com/v/96dWOEa4Djs&color1=0xb1b1b1&color2=0xcfcfcf&hl=en&feature=player_embedded&fs=1" name="movie"></param> <param value="true" name="allowFullScreen"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/96dWOEa4Djs&color1=0xb1b1b1&color2=0xcfcfcf&hl=en&feature=player_embedded&fs=1" allowfullscreen="true" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" height="344" width="425"></embed></object></div> http://www.thestandard.com./news/2009/03/10/video-fastest-pc-you-may-ever-see#comments co:Samsung Hardware The Industry Standard Tue, 10 Mar 2009 15:45:47 -0400 Paul Boutin 128343 at http://www.thestandard.com. Video: The fastest PC you may ever see http://www.thestandard.com./news/2009/03/10/video-fastest-pc-you-may-ever-see <p> <p> </p> <p>What's holding back PC performance? Hard drives! The biggest bottleneck inside a desktop or laptop is the time it takes to read and write data to and from a disk. A <a href="http://www.tomshardware.com/news/Samsung-256GB-SSD,6628.html">solid state drive</a> (SSD) with no moving parts is much faster, as <a href="http://www.apple.com/macbookair/guidedtour/">MacBook Air</a> owners will attest.</p> <p>But why stop there? A Samsung marketing firm's IT guy linked 24 solid-state drives together as a RAID array, to see how much it would boost the performance of a standard PC. In the video below, the test unit opens all Microsoft Office apps in just half a second. Defragging the array takes only three seconds.</p> <p>The best news is that SSD prices are starting to come down to the point where an SSD is a reasonable upgrade. Amazon sells a <a href="http://www.amazon.com/128GB-Sata-Ssd-2-5IN-Build/dp/B001IAO8SQ/ref=pd_bbs_2?ie=UTF8&s=electronics&qid=1236712717&sr=8-2">128 gigabyte</a> model for just over $300. The speedy Samsung model used in the video, though, still costs <a href="http://www.google.com/products?q=samsung+ssd+256&oe=UTF-8&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=wf&ei=N762SY_-KJqqtQP94eT5CA&oi=property_suggestions&resnum=0&ct=property-revision&cd=1">close to a thousand dollars</a>. </p> <div><object height="344" width="425"> <p> </p> <param value="http://www.youtube.com/v/96dWOEa4Djs&color1=0xb1b1b1&color2=0xcfcfcf&hl=en&feature=player_embedded&fs=1" name="movie"></param> <param value="true" name="allowFullScreen"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/96dWOEa4Djs&color1=0xb1b1b1&color2=0xcfcfcf&hl=en&feature=player_embedded&fs=1" allowfullscreen="true" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" height="344" width="425"></embed></object></div> http://www.thestandard.com./news/2009/03/10/video-fastest-pc-you-may-ever-see#comments co:Samsung Hardware The Industry Standard Tue, 10 Mar 2009 15:45:47 -0400 Paul Boutin 128343 at http://www.thestandard.com. Video: The fastest PC you may ever see http://www.thestandard.com./news/2009/03/10/video-fastest-pc-you-may-ever-see <p> <p> </p> <p>What's holding back PC performance? Hard drives! The biggest bottleneck inside a desktop or laptop is the time it takes to read and write data to and from a disk. A <a href="http://www.tomshardware.com/news/Samsung-256GB-SSD,6628.html">solid state drive</a> (SSD) with no moving parts is much faster, as <a href="http://www.apple.com/macbookair/guidedtour/">MacBook Air</a> owners will attest.</p> <p>But why stop there? A Samsung marketing firm's IT guy linked 24 solid-state drives together as a RAID array, to see how much it would boost the performance of a standard PC. In the video below, the test unit opens all Microsoft Office apps in just half a second. Defragging the array takes only three seconds.</p> <p>The best news is that SSD prices are starting to come down to the point where an SSD is a reasonable upgrade. Amazon sells a <a href="http://www.amazon.com/128GB-Sata-Ssd-2-5IN-Build/dp/B001IAO8SQ/ref=pd_bbs_2?ie=UTF8&s=electronics&qid=1236712717&sr=8-2">128 gigabyte</a> model for just over $300. The speedy Samsung model used in the video, though, still costs <a href="http://www.google.com/products?q=samsung+ssd+256&oe=UTF-8&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=wf&ei=N762SY_-KJqqtQP94eT5CA&oi=property_suggestions&resnum=0&ct=property-revision&cd=1">close to a thousand dollars</a>. </p> <div><object height="344" width="425"> <p> </p> <param value="http://www.youtube.com/v/96dWOEa4Djs&color1=0xb1b1b1&color2=0xcfcfcf&hl=en&feature=player_embedded&fs=1" name="movie"></param> <param value="true" name="allowFullScreen"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/96dWOEa4Djs&color1=0xb1b1b1&color2=0xcfcfcf&hl=en&feature=player_embedded&fs=1" allowfullscreen="true" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" height="344" width="425"></embed></object></div> http://www.thestandard.com./news/2009/03/10/video-fastest-pc-you-may-ever-see#comments co:Samsung Hardware The Industry Standard Tue, 10 Mar 2009 15:45:47 -0400 Paul Boutin 128343 at http://www.thestandard.com.