Toshiba Announces OCZ TR200 Entry-Level SSD

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Toshiba's OCZ division tells us the TR200 will ship in three capacity sizes that range from 240GB to 960GB. The drives carry a three-year limited warranty that supports up to 240TB written. The claimed performance reaches up to 550MBps sequential read and 525MBps sequential write speeds. Random performance comes up to 80,000 IOPS read and 87,000 IOPS write. The larger random write speed indicates the drive will use an aggressive SLC buffer to increase performance. It will be interesting to see how the SLC algorithms combat the low performance we've seen in other DRAMless products.

First Toshiba retail SSD shipping with 64-layer 3-bit per cell TLC BiCS Flash
Will be the only SATA-based retail product released by Toshiba, and is targeted at entry-level DIY system builders and first time upgraders from HDDs
Focuses on outstanding price/performance for value-oriented consumers
Designed to offer both lower power and cost savings to customers without expensive and power-consuming DRAM

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Chris Ramseyer was a senior contributing editor for Tom's Hardware. He tested and reviewed consumer storage.

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