OCZ unveils 1TB SSD Colossus
Enormous capacity - even bigger price
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Memory and storage specialist OCZ has unwrapped its latest SSD and it's a biggie: the Colossus packs in 1TB of solid-state storage.
The price is enormous, too: $3572 (£2123/€2392) for that terabyte capacity, though cheaper (sort of) 500GB, 250GB and 120GB versions are available for the less well-heeled.
OCZ's Colossus: 3.5in for a change
Unlike most other SSDs, from OCZ and others, the Colossus uses the 3.5in form-factor. They use an Indilinx controller for the Flash and a Silicon Image Raid controller to put the drive's internals into Raid 0 configuration.
OCZ claimed the Colossus' read, write and sustained write speeds are 260MB/s, 260MB/s and 220MB/s, respectively.
Those speeds are for all the drives but the 120GB model, which rates 260MB/s, 260MB/s and 140MB/s.
That model costs $609 - the 250GB and 500GB versions come to $1123 and $1770, respectively. ®
COMMENTS
For (almost) the same price you can get:
for the same 2,4 kEur you can get
8x 128GB Supertalent SX SSD and
1x 8port LSI megaraid 9260-8i
Wich is a tad bulkier but gives you an PCIe 8x attached SSD array with 1,5Gbytes of write cache (128MBytes on each drive and 512 on the controller).
Anyone willing to hazard a guess which one is faster?
...and if you don´t need the 1TB ssd you can either scale down to a four drive array or use a 70Eur 1,5TB Spinpoint F2 like everyone else.
Why?
The problem with the drive for ever bigger capacities is that you struggle to find lower capacities. At home I have several desktops and laptops around the house, all with massive, empty hard drives in the 160-320gb range. All the non-transient data is stored on a high capacity file server. Bring back the cheap 40gb drives (80gb for a dual-boot system).
Appropriate name
"Colossus" describes both its capacity and its price tag.
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