OCZ's Z-Drive priced at Amazon: $1,561 and way up

The kind folks at OCZ Technology's CeBIT booth told us that they expected the forthcoming Z-Drive to be priced between $1,500 and $2,000, and unfortunately for consumers, they were obviously just talking about the starting tag. Today, the much-hyped PCI-Express SSD card -- which strings a few blocks of flash memory together on a wicked fast PCI-E pipeline -- has been listed at Amazon, and the asking prices are downright eye-popping. The drive is slated to ship in 250GB, 500GB and 1TB flavors, with Amazon demanding $1,561.30, $2,450.50 and $3,368.99 for each in order of mention. We know read rates up to 500MB/sec and write rates of up to 470MB/sec are appealing and all, but damn.

[Thanks, Gary]

Read - 250GB Z-Drive listing
Read - 500GB Z-Drive listing
Read - 1TB Z-Drive listing

[j0at Posted May 19th 2009 12:38PM]

plz tell me no one is buying these.

[(Unverified) Posted May 19th 2009 4:27PM]

From Amazon -- Read: Up to 500 MB/s-Write: Up to 470MB/s -Sustained Write: Up to 200MB/s

Sustained write is pretty awful, and not mentioned in the Engadget blurb.

[(Unverified) Posted May 19th 2009 2:23PM]

so this would enable full uncompressed HD/2k playback;
a boon for the effects industry.

[MoFoQ Posted May 19th 2009 3:07PM]

At those prices, I'd rather get the ioDrive which can get better read rates AND meant for server/workstation use.
Also available on Dell's site: http://accessories.us.dell.com/sna/productdetail.aspx?sku=A2595165&cs=04&c=us&l=en&dgc=SS&cid=27722&lid=628335

[looselycoupled Posted May 19th 2009 3:08PM]

OCZ and others have excellent SSD drives and you can make your own version of the above with a cheap PCIexpress RAID card and a couple SSDs. Heres my recommendations based on the latest benchmarked performance per GB per dollar:

Fast 240GB in RAID 0
2x OCZ Vertex 120GB MLC (64MB cache): $755 ($377.45 each)
HighPoint RocketRAID 2300 PCIe controller card RAID0: $118.99
= $874 total

OR

Fast 512GB in RAID 0
2x Corsair P256 256GB MLC (128MB cache) $1398 ($699 each)
HighPoint RocketRAID 2300 PCIe controller card RAID0: $118.99
= $1517 total


*note: NOT all SSDs are made alike! even different models from the same manufacturer can have huge differences in performance. Always check benchmarks before buying from places like Anandtech, PCperspective, before buying. MLC drives can be slow on random writes, and so it is very important that they have at least some amount of DRAM cache.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820227395 (Vertex drives)
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820233085 (Corsair P256)
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16816115029 (RAID card)

[(Unverified) Posted May 20th 2009 2:19AM]

"for each in order of mention."
Hey Murph, "respectively" would have also worked.




Where do they find these writers? I have seen first year ESL students with a better mastery of the language.

[calvinc Posted May 19th 2009 8:57PM]

I have to say this is awesome, but totally unnecessary for nearly all people.

[AP3X Posted May 19th 2009 9:35PM]

lol....Usually ships within 1 to 3 months. Sweet!!!

[(Unverified) Posted May 21st 2009 4:22AM]

You could also speed up your system by moving your Vram to a HyperDrive.
http://www.hyperossystems.co.uk/