OCZ Intros New 3.5-inch "Colossus" SSD
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SSD’s are fast becoming a viable option, and with prices dropping pretty steadily, more folks are opting to go SSD rather than HDD.
In keeping with this, OCZ today announced a 3.5-inch SSD dubbed Colossus. To be made available in the next two months you’re looking at 512 GB and 1 TB versions of the device. As for aesthetics, we're sorta diggin' the whole industrial look. All that aside, there’s nothing about pricing out there so we don’t know how much one of these things is going to set you back, but how much would you be willing to fork out?
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Although, I never really wanted a SSD that large considering I'd only install my OS and some apps on it.
The good thing is that more SSD are coming out and the price are dropping. Soon we will be able to buy affordable 256GB SSD for OS and programs and we will have a second or external disc for data.
Stay tunned!!!!
-3.5-inch SSD dubbed Colossus
-512 GB and 1 TB versions
-available in the next two months
I wouldnt pay double for an SSD. 50% more, yes. 100% more... no way.
The same is true for musicians that use their samplers/sample libraries in a live situation.
I wouldn't have any problem paying $1.00-$1.50 per Gigabyte. This may sound like a lot, but it is actually only a small portion of the overall cost of putting together a production quality Digital Audio Workstation (DAW).
I wouldn't buy an SSD for capacity, I'd buy one for performance, some multiplicative idea by capacity is silly, since capacity isn't the main attraction.
You are correct. I already have more than enough storage with my 2x400GB raid0 and 2x500gb raid0 arrays. My OS drive, just recently died, another 400gb drive. Rather than put another 7200 drive in I worked out a deal with a customer that got me 2 30gb Vertex drives for the price of one. These things in raid0 absolutely kill the Velociraptor.
Kudos to OCZ for bringing the field one step further. While not practical for most of us, someday these might be. I've heard the "Oh, for half that I can buy two Velociraptors and put them in RAID 0 for almost as much performance!!!" Yeah, you can, but we gotta start somewhere. Remember back when Zip disks and drivers were all the rage? Flash memory is really where things are headed, and the more mainstream it becomes, and the more they manufacture, the cheaper the unit cost is going to be. This has happened in the TV market, computer monitor market, video card market, processor market, and in other areas. Now we're seeing huge advances and development in the storage market.