OCZ Core Series SATA SSDs are way cheap |
Solid State Drives may well be the future of data storage in the computer industry, but with the high price of flash memory at this time SSDs are not seeing much adaption in the consumer market. So poor is the uptake by consumers for SSDs that Seagate will not even target the consumer market with its SSD line launching in 2009.
Somehow OCZ has got around the cost issue normally associated with SSDs with its latest offering called the Core Series SATA II Solid State Drive. OCZ says that the Core series are the first truly affordable SSDs and that the retail price of 50% less than competing products on the market.
OCZ will offer a 128GB SSD for $479, a 64GB SSD will retail for $259 and a 32GB SSD will retail for $169. OCZ promises that the drives will have read performance of 120-143 Mbs and write speed of 93Mbs. Seek times for the drives are quoted ad less than 0.35ms. The performance numbers are claimed to be about 40% faster than HDDs on the market. The Core series SSDs will be 2.5-inch drives and may fit inside some laptops. An exact launch date is unknown at this time.
TAGS: OCZ, solid state drive, SSD, Storage
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Way cheap? 32GB for $169 is cheap? That’s still too high for a glorified pen drive capacity. Even with the performance benefits of an SSD, it’s still NOT worth the cost. Everyone knows that new technology is always pricey at the start, but without some sort of bang-for-buck benefit, SSD is still far to pricey and gimmicky to take a foot hold. Market it however you like, it’s not enough to convince the world’s some 100+ tech sits who say otherwise.
I’m buying 20 of em as soon as I can find a retailer
The performance boost offered from Solid State is enourmous.
2 of the 32gb drives in a RAID 0 gives you a 64gb system drive that will increase performance in Windows by a factor of 10. It’s not just about the transfer speeds (which are on par with the fastest mechanical drives) it’s about the seek time and simoultaneous read/write performance, and Solid State absolutely DESTROYS traditional hard drives in these two areas.
Sure you can keep your terabyte hard drives for storage, but once you see windows running on SSD you will NEVER go back.
They are especially cheap after you factor in their durability in the mobile space, with no moving parts they are not susceptible to the same head crash damage as traditional hard drives.
As well as the battery life benefits. I’m getting one for my Lenovo X61 Tablet, currently has a 7200rpm 100GB drive in it, I get around 7hrs battery life, with this I’d expect to get another hour or so and it will be faster. Space isn’t something I need in a laptop thats why I’ve got a 5TB Windows Home Server. With mobile devices its all about speed and mobility.
I’m really looking forward to these. I’ll probably wait about a month after it hits the market before I buy one myself, just because of the problems people are reporting with Super Talent’s inexpensive MLC SSDs.
Capacity isn’t everything. If I need a terabyte of storage (I don’t), I’ll get an inexpensive conventional drive for that. An SSD may not beat the fastest conventional HDDs at every race, but it kills them on seek time. Granted, if all you do is play games, an SSD is probably only going to shave a second or two off loading a level versus a 15K WD drive. But for running productivity apps, an SSD is the greatest thing ever. Just wait until the next time someone with the ability to fire you calls you up on the phone wanting an answer to something. Trust me, when I have to wait four seconds or even two seconds for something to load so I can find the information he wants, it seems like an eternity.
It’s been 10 years since I’ve seen any new computer development that got me excited. I guess I got spoiled in my early years; in the late 1980s and early 1990s it seemed like every year something happened that had the ability to change the world. I think SSDs can change the world, and they have me excited again.
These guys rock.. Yea, this is way cheap… This is the cheapest that you can get for the super low latency..
Assume we invert the offer.. Would you consider a HDD with 1.4 Second access time with 10 TB capacity at $200?
Sure… but you don’t want it as a boot drive Nor would you want it as holder for all your small files. The beast would be painful.. Same deal here.. a HDD gets smacked down as a system drive.. and the bandwidth can go much higher.. Someone needs to get a much faster (and low latency) SATA ready.