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OCZ Technology unveils an SSD
CALIFORNIA COMPONENT MAKER OCZ Technology has launched a 1.8-inch Solid State Disk (SSD).
The company claims its SSD supports a smaller footprint for the thin and light laptops market. So expect to see these bunged into ultra-thin laptops, netbooks, nettops, and tablets.
OCZ said the 1.8-inch SSD has the same performance as the bigger 2.5-inch models but offers mobility features. It uses a SandForce 1.8-inch Vertex 2 assembly and the sequential transfer rates are 285MB/sec read and 275MB/sec write.
The 32GB and 64GB capacity models use only one watt of power on full load and have a SATA 3Gb/sec interface. There are also 60GB, 120GB, and 240GB models available.
OCZ also offers an Onyx SSD that uses an Indilinx controller with 64MB of cache and can drive transfer rates up to 145MB/sec.
"We are now introducing two new drives that are designed to cater to the entire range of mobile applications including the Vertex2 1.8 [inch] and the new Onyx 1.8 [inch] which is designed for consumers looking for a quality SSD that is aggressively priced and is ideal for Netbooks," said Alex Mei, CMO of the OCZ Technology Group.
OCZ didn't release any price information but you can visit its product page here. µ
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I'm glad to see a 1.8" HDD that has standard SATA connectors instead of the crap, proprietary connectors in the current 1.8" drives. I do backups in my shop and the damn 1.8" to SATA adapters break if you look at them with a nasty look. We stopped trying and sent folks elsewhere.
I read the articles for the vandrashrek garbled whateverspeak, and this one doesn't disappoint. ?ester Cow chips of Anus? Win!
can't say i blame 'em for the 'arse-kick' pricetag. if i was in the technology business i would exploit every last £1 from the idiots out there that swallow every micron of hype and HAVE to have a new device before anyone else.
conversely, the rational thinking world has to wait for the prices to become realistic
so once again we suffer becuase of the world's idiots...
Sure, small Falsh can sell four clams GB. there are 512 Micro card USB Flashers. In Toggle Market maybe four clammers GB Is Developemental Cost.
However, SSD Are Getting Larger, Way too Larger To Charge 4 Bucks GB. Way Way too much coin for short lived device. 512 Gb today in Flash SSD toggle market 2 TB by end of Year.
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