OCZ Colossus is 3.5'' SSD, 1TB, Fast, Expensive
This thing is big, just like your computer.
Most SSDs are designed to fit within the 2.5-inch form factor, making it suitable for laptops. But sometimes you just need some added capacity for your badass gaming rig. For that, OCZ today released the Colossus 3.5-inch SSD Series, available in up to one terabyte configurations.
"The new Colossus Series is designed to boost desktop and workstation performance and is for high power users that put a premium on speed, reliability and maximum storage capacity." said Eugene Chang, VP of Product Management at the OCZ Technology Group. "The Colossus core-architecture is also available to enterprise clients with locked BOMs (build of materials) and customized firmware to match their unique applications."
The Colossus SSD is available in 128 GB, 256 GB, 512 GB, and 1 TB capacities and is a straight drop in for many existing systems. In addition to ample capacity, the OCZ Colossus delivers excellent performance made possible by an internal RAID 0 architecture.
Sounds good? Sure, but don’t expect it to be gentle on your wallet. 128 GB version costs $438; 256 GB at $820; 512 GB at $1530; and the 1TB big daddy is around $3397, according to Xbitlab's Froogle search.
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Damn that's expensive. I guess I'm going to have to start selling drugs again.
"and the 1TB big daddy is around $3397"
fail. My "badass" gaming rig didn't cost half that...
You don't think there will be some truly top tier power users already already 1 or more of these? Brand Flagship models are never about the masses, but the elite, showcases for new levels in tech, intended to elevate the brands image amongst the more-regular joes who might be shopping for a en entry level SSD and can't decide on a brand.
already already = already ordering
my bad
Wow, "big daddy" is ridiculously expensive! Most likely will see a "wish list" of reviews over at newegg soon...
OVERPRICED...
Why such high prices??? seems like people do buy em'
Intel's 2nd generation 128GB SSD's price is a lot cheaper... where is the competition??
I hope the overpricing is justified by a big leap in speed... gotta see a review first.
I'll take two 1Tb units and two 17" Macbook Pro's please.
"and the 1TB big daddy is around $3397"fail. My "badass" gaming rig didn't cost half that...
The product is for hardcore enthusiasts ;x you know that there will be SOME people that will buy it despite the price
I'll take two 1Tb units and two 17" Macbook Pro's please.
Except they don't fit in the MBP...
Glad to see they're offering competitive sizes to Hard Disk drives, even if there is a price premium... Anyone else remember 1 gig drives costing an arm and a leg?
Competitive sizes, yes, but in terms of performance it gets spanked by similarly priced OCZ Z-Drives. I know they're different animals, but I'm just saying...
You're supposed to get a better deal when buying in bulk; so why is it ~$300 cheaper to buy two 512 GB than a single 1 TB?
"and the 1TB big daddy is around $3397"fail. My "badass" gaming rig didn't cost half that...
At least they didn't use 1995 pricing.
If they did, then that drive would have cost you an arm, a leg and your first born child!
Never mind Drives, memory alone was going for at least $50.00 per MB.
You're supposed to get a better deal when buying in bulk; so why is it ~$300 cheaper to buy two 512 GB than a single 1 TB?
RAID it up brotha! 0:-) (Still mad expensive however)
*Kicks Moores law in the balls*
WORK FASTER DAMNIT!
Any serious builder would not invest in these (unless they are tight on space). And instead, just Raid 0 together a bunch of fast 128GB 2.5" drives. The SATA 3Gb/s interface limits the collosus's speed to 375MB/s reads and writes (and even then they bench only 261 MB/s reads and writes). Tom's here has benched raid-0 Intel SSD configurations up to >1GB/s. At the rate SSDs are speeding up, the new SATA 6Gb/s (that's 750MB/s) interface is going to bottleneck the fastest SSDs by the time it becomes mainstream...
Available in 120GB (128), 250GB (256), 500GB (512), capacities*
Max Read: up to 260MB/s
Max Write: up to 260MB/s
Sustained Write: up to 220MB/s
128MB Onboard Cache
Dual-Controller design
Seek Time:
Available in 120GB (128), 250GB (256), 500GB (512), capacities*
Max Read: up to 260MB/s
Max Write: up to 260MB/s
Sustained Write: up to 220MB/s
128MB Onboard Cache
Dual-Controller design
Seek Time:
hmmm....i'll still stay with my 300gb velociraptors in a raid 0 for now
WTH is this, $438 for 128GB? The 2.5" SSDs are cheaper for same capacity.
Damn I would kill to have one of these in my rig.
Great a raid on old fort knox cough fort tongsten just to break even.
Fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu..... I saw how much the 512GB was and immediately went into a slump. T.T
RAID it up brotha! 0:-) (Still mad expensive however)
Yeah, but right now you can't use TRIM if you do RAID.
This is a beauty...I want one. I might have to wait 5 years though until the price becomes affordable.
There are many niche applications where this is going to be a godsend. I work on very large complex computations, which use humongous swap files (almost 1TB) and massive amounts of RAM. This will provide a huge boost to performance, especially if I put a few drives together (I run 15,000rpm SAS drives now!). I know of people doing quantum mechanical computations on big (real) molecules and to get usable numbers the level of theory needs to be high. For games and entertainment, I might have to give a pass on this one!
this is such a rip! just buy two 2.5 inchers of half the size and raid 'em yourself.
Way
Too
Expensive.
I can get a pack of ten 2TB Western Digital Caviar Black HDD (spinners) for that price with Change to spare... SSD 1TB for $500 sure .. $1000 maybe but 3397? Thanks but no thanks.
I'm getting 6 of these 1TB babies and putting them in RAID 0 on my $450 gaming rig. It's going to kick some serious @$$!
Yeah screw that! for that much I can buy a good raid card, buy 6 2TB HD and put them in a raid 10 configuration (1+0 so you have a mirrored stripe). And get close to that performance with 6 times the capacity.