New OCZ SSD Line Offers 1 TB, "Instant On" Support
OCZ has introduced a new line of SSDs based on the Indilinx Everest controller, offering a max capacity of 1 TB.
Thursday OCZ Technology announced the Indilinx Everest-based Octane SATA 3.0 and SATA 2.0 series of SSDs. The company is claiming "world's first" by offering a 1 TB capacity SSD in a compact 2.5 inch format, and "record-breaking" access times of up to 560 MB/s of bandwidth and 45,000 IOPS.
"Until now SSDs have been tailored for specific applications, forcing users into a product which maximizes performance for a narrow band of applications, but is significantly lacking in others," said Ryan Petersen, CEO of OCZ Technology. "The Octane Series solves this problem by providing the highest level of performance across varied workloads including mixed file sizes and mixed compressible and uncompressible data, all while nearly doubling NAND flash endurance."
According to the company, the Octane series features proprietary page mapping algorithms that allow for steady mixed-workload performance. There are also a number of details unique to Indilinx including latency reduction technology which allows read access times as low as 0.06ms and write access times down at 0.09ms, enabling "fast boot" in consumer applications.
On a more technical level, the Octane version, connecting via a SATA 3 interface (6 Gb/s), will have read speeds of up to 560 MB/s and write speeds up to 400 MB/s, and the SATA 2-based Octane-S2 (3 Gb/s) will have read speeds up to 275 MB/s and write speeds up to 265 MB/s. The Octane model will also deliver up to 45,000 random read 4K IOPS and the Octane-S2 up to 30,000 random read 4K IOPS.
As for other features, the Octane series will sport up to 512 MB of DRAM cache, a dual-core controller (CPU), dynamic and static wear-leveling, background garbage collection, TRIM support, SMART reporting and more. An advanced BCH ECC engine also enables more than 70 bits correction capability per 1KB of data, the company said.
"Octane SSDs also come equipped with Indilinx's proprietary NDurance technology, increasing the lifespan of the NAND flash memory, ensuring the most consistent and reliable performance as well as minimizing performance degradation even after the drive's storage capacity is highly utilized," OCZ reports. "In addition, Octane series drives support AES and automatic encryption to secure critical data."
The OCZ Octane SSD Series will be available on November 1, 2011 in 128 GB, 256 GB, 512 GB and 1 TB capacities. Pricing is currently unavailable.

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Aww $1300+ ? Damn!
Oh well guess I can live with a 128 version when it comes out.
There are 3.5" SSDs. OCZ sells them and they are available on newegg. They have to up 1TB in capacity.
No consumer class HDD is 5.25 for a long time I think. So I don't think company wants to introduc it back.
There are 3.5 inch SSD. Search Vertex 2 3.5 on google.
But there is little point. Make it one size fit all is easier.
Due to advances in NAND process, you increase density in the same space and process mature to bring down the cost.
Once a new process is matured, it will cost equal or less than the older process.
Stuffing old lower density chip in bigger case to give you same storage capacity increase the cost because of older process yield less GB per material.
Because flash is small, you don't need that kind of space to fit a TB of information. They reason that you have not seen higher capacity in the past is because the cost would be astronomical and nobody would buy it (they have been available for a few years as PCIe cards).
@$1300 this would be a relative steal!
I love my wife's Solid3 drive, when I upgrade next year I hope to pay
So if they can do 1Tb in a 2.5" now, does that mean the 3.5" form factor can equal or beat the current highest capacity of HDD?
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HDD had 2 out of 3, if SSD can get 2 out of 3 then surely price isn't far behind?
But prices will be most likely Astronomical.
Don't hold your breath on it. For some reason, SSD prices did not come down as expected after all this time.