One Terabyte SSD hits the shops
OCZ TECHNOLOGY has released a 3.5-inch SSD that packs a terabyte of data.
Called Colossus, it is designed to boost desktop and workstation performance for people who need really fast storage drives and shift a hell of a lot of data. It is supposed to be about twice as fast as the Intel SSD drives with a read rate of up to 260 MBps, write of up to 260MBps and sustained write of up to 230MBps.
Eugene Chang, VP of product management at OCZ Technology Group, said the drive manages to go like a banshee because it has an internal RAID 0 architecture.
This also makes it quite good at handling the little tasks such as emailing, web browsing, and file transfer.
However we suspect that it will be in corporate servers where most Colossus SSDs will find their homes. There they can cut back bottlenecks suffered by mechanical hard drive infrastructures and reduce power consumption as well as both heat and noise.
The OCZ Colossus SSD drives are available in 128GB, 256GB, 512GB, and 1TB units and come with three year warrantees and dedicated technical support.
One site shows a price of $3,572 for the top end 1TB drive, which sounds about right. µ
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only $3,500? i'd gladly re-mortgage my house and pay $60,000 because SSDs are so reliable and cheap
and i'm not a mug who is bedazzled by the latest shiny shiny gizmo(!)
durrr.....
since when corporate servers care about the noise hdds make ?
What is the RPM of these new SSD disks, they sound as if they spin real fast.
They spin too fast to be measured in RPM (you would get some gazillion RPM), so they now use RPN (revolution per nanosecond). It's about 12 RPN. Or so. To get the right figure, check Wankypedia....
Only on the inquirer!:) That joke made my day, thanks! And RNS?? That's cool too! At such insane rotational speed, the drive's platter must not exceed 15 picometer in diameter and be exclusively made of super strong carbon nanotubes! That explain why it cost 3.5K$... Ok, I'm updating the Waky page now with those new "facts"! LOL
Ramon
since the prefix for nano is lower case...
Finally someone gets the sense to make a 3.5" SSD.
I wonder if the drive is just a bunch of 2.5" SSDs in RAID0 combo, hence the resultant increase in speed and capacity.
they do not spin at all,
thats why they are called Solid State Drives...
Wooooooshhhhh!!!
"thats why they are called Solid State Drives..."
Some-one who knows what they are saying!
SSDs do NOT spin, move juggle or dance. They are essentially like flash memory (usb thumb/pen/flash drives) they dont have moving parts at all.
And yes, i know the technology is different between flash drives and SSD, its the principal of no moving parts.
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Dear gullible idiot,
There is at least one SSD that is reliable , the one that was installed in the Hubble Space Telescope.
Only absolutely reliable hardware goes into the HST.
It does not have Pentium boards as they are not regarded as absolutely reliable.
The last upgrade I know about was to
the 486 technology , which handles all that marvellous instrument needs to do its work.
It's not that they're not reliable.
You don't see Pentiums because they're much more sensitive to cosmic radiation as they circuits inside are more close to each other and much thinner.
A 386 or 486 are less complex designs, with much less vulnerability to cosmic interferences.
Besides, there are usually at least three processors doing the same work in a system where each processor votes the other processors' results just to make sure for a second time each calculation is right.
A SSD like the ones you have in your computer would be useless on Hubble Space Telescope, unless it's wrapped with 1 inch of gold or some metal to protect it.
Write count on regular SSDs is also too small for HTS and they're much too sensitive for it.
A current approximation for current SSD drives is that you won't have cells failing because of write count if you fill the drive up to 80% of it's size, delete everything, repeat the process and do it again for 8 hours a day, for 10 years.
However, I doubt the Hubble Telescope writes to the memory only eight hours a day, it's much too important to not be used all the time.
OCZ makes some interesting products. I feel bad for you if you buy one though. The only real tech support they provide is via a forum with a real jack@ss for a moderator. He requires you read worthless posts in order to gain his good side before he'll help you. What a total waste of good time and money. OCZ can kiss my ___
Hahahahaha
$3,572
Hah, oh wow. I almost fell for it. Now seriously, Inquirer, what's the real price of the drive?