So, this video, apart from being a perfect blend of 1990′s British youth-TV and bleeding edge 2008-2009 technology, shows off some simply awesome… Stuff:

Okay, in words we can all understand – the roustabout opens FIFTY-THREE applications in 19 seconds. It takes my computer about 15 seconds just to open iTunes.

In summary, this video shows you a) how cool SSD’s are/will be, b) how important the von Neumann bottleneck is and c) how absolutely zany us Brits are.

Now, to gather together 24 SSD’s. That’s just shy of £13,000.

JB
Oh, listen to the song being sung throughout – Yes, its a ska-ish song concerning hard disk drives… Brilliant.