World's First 1 Terabyte 2.5-Inch SDD To Be Released by OCZ
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[TABLE="width: 752, align: center"][TR][TD][release][SUB][SUP][URL="http://gizmodo.com/5851546/the-worlds-first-25+inch-1tb-ssd-needs-to-get-in-my-laptops-belly-like-now"][Gizmodo][/URL][/SUP][/SUB] OCZ's new Octane series is the first solid state drive to squeeze one full terabyte of storage into a 2.5-inch drive, but the awesome doesn't stop there. It has read speeds of up to 560MB/s and write speeds of 400MB/s, versus top competitors who are at 500MB/s read and 315MB/s write.
The Octane series has a new controller called Everest (made by Indilinx, which OCZ recently acquired). They have built a bunch of new proprietary algorithms into it and they make a lot of bold claims, including nearly doubling NAND life, which should give it a whopping ten-year lifespan under average use (which they said was pretty vigorous). It's supposed to retain most of that out-of-the-box speed even after it's mostly full and has been though many write/erase cycles, which has been a major sticking point for SSDs in the past. There are no compression, file-type, or file-size limitations, which means you should get the same speed no matter what you're working with.
These are consumer oriented drives, but OCZ will soon be fleshing out the Octane line with enterprise drives and pro drives which will push performance even further. At present there are SATA 3.0 drives and SATA 2.0 drives, with the 3.0's being the real spec monsters. They have Indilinx's "fast boot" technology, which supposedly decreases their boot time by 50-percent versus existing SSDs. You'll see OEM versions of these drives arriving soon in some of LG's upcoming ultrabooks. They are available in sizes starting at 120GB and going all the way up to 1TB. In the 3.0 line a 120GB will run you about $156, 240GB for $288, 480GB for $528, and 1TB for $1,100. That's a very nice price per gigabyte, and this is the only one you can get in the 1TB form factor. They'll start shipping toward the end of next week and they'll be available at a major retailers (NewEgg, Amazon, Tiger Direct, etc).
Obviously, there are a lot of large claims here that need to tested (and we intend to), but if the Octane series can live up to them then I'd expect this to make major waves in the evolving SSD landscape. OCZ's previous series of drives won our last SSD smackdown—let's see if they can go back-to-back.
P.S. It's worth noting that there have been others to claim to have 1TB SSDs in a 2.5-inch form factor, but most ended up not existing, or are at least not available to consumers anywhere.
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$ 1,110 for that thing. Holy shit.
[QUOTE=Nikota;32932184]$ 1,110 for that thing. Holy shit.[/QUOTE]
2 more years and this'll be average, probably.
Or you could pay 1/5th of the price for 3x the storage space using conventional storage methods until they stop charging people out the ass for SSD's
snip wrong storage card
in a few years this will be $100 and everyone who bought one at this price will cry into their wads of cash
Imagine something like that attached to an HD camera! The number of photos or hours of footage would be incredible!
[QUOTE=Generic.Monk;32932217]in a few years this will be $100 and everyone who bought one at this price will cry into their wads of cash[/QUOTE]
Wads of cash that are super fast.
Dip it in salt and make it 18TB
God I want this right now..
[QUOTE=Hidole555;32932288]Dip it in salt and make it 18TB[/QUOTE]
smear some E-coli as well and gain some more TB's
so expensive but [B]SO COOL[/B]
Cost: One billion gajillion fahshillion shabgagaloo shebebasdaj million yen.
Sauce: [B]Dr. Evil[/B].
[QUOTE=Nikota;32932184]$ 1,110 for that thing. Holy shit.[/QUOTE]
It's very cheap compared to current SSD prices.
That's the same price as the Vertex 3 480 GB.
we have had this for about 2 years but in PCI-E x4 form, this si the first SATA verion
You'd think we'd be in the nineties with that price to capacity ratio.
SSD's are relatively new you can say and are not cheap to make so of course they'll be expensive. Especially, for this since it's the first 1 terabyte.
That's about a dollar a gigabyte.
Fucking finally, now we just have to play the waiting game and the transition will be complete, took long enough
My ocz ssd is only 125gb :'(
My ssd is 0 gb :'(
[sp]I don't have one[/sp]
I love my SSd, it's only like 80gb but I've got windows and a few other programs on there, it's lightning fast.
I can't wait until SSDs get as cheap as regular shitty hard drives.
[QUOTE=ExplodingGuy;32932571]You'd think we'd be in the nineties with that price to capacity ratio.[/QUOTE]
30k OIPS is about 26 15,000 RPM drives, this is totaly cost effective from a server stand point
1 15k drive = 120IOPS
Whenever i can buy a 2TB ssd drive for 70 bucks, i'll buy one. Till then ssd can go fuck itself in the butthole.
What happened to those salt SSD ones?
[QUOTE=Nikota;32932184]$ 1,110 for that thing. Holy shit.[/QUOTE]
That's more than my entire build...
I'd buy one if I was rich, or won the Monopoly contest at McDonalds.
put it in with AMD's new 8-core CPU's and you have a lil' beast
[QUOTE=boomer678;32932643]My ssd is 0 gb :'(
[sp]I don't have one[/sp][/QUOTE]
My ssd is 8 gb :v:
[sp]its a usb drive[/sp]
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