Now this is fast (and kind of fun, too.)
It has been a long, long time since I put together my own computer. Probably 1998 or '99. BUT it did last up until last year. *
· That is, all except the 3.5" floppy drive, which did not survive a toddler attack with a paper clip that happened in 2002. I managed a few years without it.
Watching this video makes me want to put a machine together again, pretty much just like this one. Since disk reads and writes have ALWAYS been the long pole in the tent for business applications like RPMS, this gives me really interesting ideas.
Solid state drives - SSD's - are basically just the flash memory cards we're all familiar with now from digital cameras and the like, arrayed on a computer card. And RAID is an acronym for Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks. So you take the array of flash chips bundled into a single drive (the SSD), and then take a bunch of those SSD's and wire them together on a single computer (the RAID) and presto, pretty darn fast computer.
I've never put together a RAID before, but hmmmm.....
