Update: OCZ's 1 TB Colossus SSD Costs $2200

Wow! Thats one big drive! Lets just all hope (and pray) that is is toward the $300 end

Oops! Sorry about the previous comment.... saw "1 TB" and "between $300 and $2200" so thought that was the price of the 1 tb. Too bad there is no edit button on comments...

But yea, thats one big drive!

*drooling* Maybe I should take out a student loan and purchase this silicon baby.

wait, so isn't this just a couple of smaller drives and a raid controller in a 3.5" box? would it be cheaper to just DIY?

nice toy, too bad its not in my budget

I can build a WD raptor RAID 5 setup with that much money. What's the only real difference? Response time. Which is (on average) a mere 15ms more...

In a few months it will probably cost half that amount.

"Electronista is also reporting that the 1 TB drive integrates two separate SSD components that are arranged in a RAID 0 configuration, driven by a JMicron controller."

No thanks

is it just me or does OCZ have way too many product lines?....

I second the comment about making them yourself, get a tiny raid controller that you can connect up to 12 32gb or 64gb SD cards and you have saved yourself allot of money and it will actually use allot less space than a 3.5inch drive bay.

I was going to do this with CF cards a long time ago... never got around to doing it.

It's geared towards Enterprise environments with deep pockets. Maybe in a couple of years it'll come down in price to the point it's more affordable.

For it's size I still prefer HDDs.

When are prices gonna come down??

Ugh, if SSD's would just come down another 40% or so i'd be willing to pay for one. The sad fact is that you can still buy 2 normal HDD's, set them up in a raid 0, and get roughly equivalent transfer rates. Yes, access time is a lot worse, but overall you're getting a far better bargain, and much more capacity.

If i could get a 128gb SSD with 150/150 read/write or better for $175-$200, i would gladly pay that.

Holy sh*t ... now let's hope for a lower priced (yet smaller) drives that aren't ridiculously priced.

deltatux

one word flushes your entire 2200 bucks down the drain... "jmicron"
wtf, why would they not use a better controller on a high end product?
I don't think anyone wants to pay 2200 bucks for a stuttering hdd.

RAID controllers aren't cheap... once you calculate that in its a very different decision.

Anyways I'm getting the new Intel ones when they are back on the market.

will it not be easier, faster and less expensive to just buy 4 256gb ssd
and raid 0 them?

SD Cards don't have performance of an SSD drive. SD, like typical low-cost flash memory cards/drives are very fast for what they do, used mostly in the portable market - are not designed for the high-performance demands of a desktop computer. They'll wear out faster than SSD drives and not have the performance. Nevermind not even coming close to the SSD-PCIe drives ($1500+) which can transfer 1500~2000MB/s!

Lets do some math.
The SD-RAID0-SSD Device is about $150 (I don't know, lets guess)
Each 32GB SD-Card is $100 (Some are down to $80, but for math reasons, its easier)

So for 320GB, you'll need 10 cards = $1000 ($800 for the cheaper ones) + adapter = $950~1150.

Well, they don't make 320GB SSD Drives, but 256 and 512. 256 = $600, two of those would be $1200.... same price that OCZ is offering their 512GB drive.

Its not cost effective to use SD as a cheap SSD.

This one doesn't have a Jmicron Memory controller but a Jmicron RAID controller which links two Indilinx barefoot Memory controllers. So the speeds should be impressive.

I'd rather have WD Cavalier Blacks in RAID. Sure I think the speed of this SSD would be nice, but the price is just a wee bit too much for my tastes .

If I could win one of those... isn't there a winning contest somewhere...^ |

redgarl:
Winning would mean you'll be paying a quarter to a third of the price (depending on what state you live in and your income bracket) - don't forget uncle Sam...

I would much rather have 4x256GB Intel drives in a raid0 That would be fun stuff there!

About $2 per gigabyte, it's nice to see the price getting reasonable. =D

I want Intels new line myself however.

These first-gen drives are such a waste for RAID! Anybody can see that the Sata II interface is becoming the performance bottleneck. It would be wiser to wait for Sata III drives to appear and pair them with a 600MB/s Sata III controller.

Yep...

But PCIe is still the fastest.
Even a 4x slot can transfer up to 2000mb/s.

I just bought an OCZ Vertex 30GB. Sure, 60 GB would've been nice but these SSDs are so expensive. I didn't bother with anything slower than the Vertex - either you shed some green for a fast drive or you don't.

Also, a reminder, SSDs are still only really worth it when random access is the bottleneck. Sure, 200-250 MBps is nice, but it's "only" 2-3 times faster than physical drives and IMO not worth the price.

At $22 per Gb, is it just me or is the price slowly coming down?

Having said that, spindle drives are rougly $0.1-$0.5 per Gb so they have a long way to go.

the prices of these things is enormous compared to the price of the chips. 4gb USb drive is $6 . the only thing I see is greedy ass companies in a colapsed global economy. Keep it up we want you to fail and go under. Theres only room for those companies willing to adjust to the changes in the world. Meaning lower pricing when its very easily done. I will continue to use mechanical HDs till these drives and those making them wake up.

Would not jump on this unless it had a SATA 3.0 interface.