OCZ launches new Colossus high-capacity SSDs

Peter G. 17 Nov, 2009 at 4:45pm ET Article published in Tech

OCZColossus Today OCZ announced the availability of its new Colossus-series 3.5″ form factor solid state drives. The drives range in size from 120GB up to 1TB of MLC storage and feature dual controllers for internal Raid 0 and 128MB of cache.

Four models have been announced today:

120GB
Read: Up to 260MB/s
Write: Up to 260MB/s
Sustained Write: 140MB/s
Max IOPS: 14,280 (4k random)

250GB
Read: Up to 260MB/s
Write: Up to 260MB/s
Sustained Write: 220MB/s
Max IOPS: 16,100 (4k random)

500GB
Read: Up to 260MB/s
Write: Up to 260MB/s
Sustained Write: 220MB/s
Max IOPS: 12,300 (4k random)

1TB
Read: Up to 260MB/s
Write: Up to 260MB/s
Sustained Write: 220MB/s
Max IOPS: 13,350 (4K random)

Comments

17 Nov 2009 ~ 4:52pm Sledgehammer70 Prices?
17 Nov 2009 ~ 4:57pm Cliff_Forster Sledge, you know what they say, "if you have to ask"
17 Nov 2009 ~ 5:00pm photodude 1TB SSD wow!!! =D if it's affordable I want one

I'm guessing $3.50/GB pricing so the 1TB will be around $3500
17 Nov 2009 ~ 5:04pm BuddyJ The 500GB is only listed on Amazon right now, and it looks to be $1,800. Double that for the 1TB one I guess?
17 Nov 2009 ~ 5:09pm Sledgehammer70 Errr... SSD needs to drop in price & it needs to do it now I want my better Windows Index score.... lol!
17 Nov 2009 ~ 5:19pm mas0n My HTPC wants a SSD so bad. I wish the prices on 32GB SLC would come down.
17 Nov 2009 ~ 6:01pm primesuspect You know, Newegg is not the only site on earth:

http://www.zipzoomfly.com/jsp/ProductDetail.jsp?ProductCode=10011002

http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_ss?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=OCZ+Colossus&x=0&y=0

~$3571 for a 1tb
17 Nov 2009 ~ 6:04pm Thrax

primesuspect wrote: »

You know, Newegg is not the only site on earth

A lesson learned all too well by anyone who actually wants to buy a performance heatsink.