http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/19/oczs-z-drive-priced-at-amazon-1-561-and-way-up/ Engadget Comments for OCZ's Z-Drive priced at Amazon: $1,561 and way up http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/19/oczs-z-drive-priced-at-amazon-1-561-and-way-up/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/19/oczs-z-drive-priced-at-amazon-1-561-and-way-up/May 19th 2009 9:38AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/19/oczs-z-drive-priced-at-amazon-1-561-and-way-up/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/19/oczs-z-drive-priced-at-amazon-1-561-and-way-up/May 19th 2009 9:38AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/19/oczs-z-drive-priced-at-amazon-1-561-and-way-up/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/19/oczs-z-drive-priced-at-amazon-1-561-and-way-up/]]>May 19th 2009 9:47AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/19/oczs-z-drive-priced-at-amazon-1-561-and-way-up/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/19/oczs-z-drive-priced-at-amazon-1-561-and-way-up/May 19th 2009 9:52AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/19/oczs-z-drive-priced-at-amazon-1-561-and-way-up/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/19/oczs-z-drive-priced-at-amazon-1-561-and-way-up/May 19th 2009 10:19AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/19/oczs-z-drive-priced-at-amazon-1-561-and-way-up/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/19/oczs-z-drive-priced-at-amazon-1-561-and-way-up/May 19th 2009 10:23AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/19/oczs-z-drive-priced-at-amazon-1-561-and-way-up/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/19/oczs-z-drive-priced-at-amazon-1-561-and-way-up/

IT with a budget equals... Let the praise begin.]]>May 19th 2009 2:03PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/19/oczs-z-drive-priced-at-amazon-1-561-and-way-up/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/19/oczs-z-drive-priced-at-amazon-1-561-and-way-up/May 19th 2009 9:39AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/19/oczs-z-drive-priced-at-amazon-1-561-and-way-up/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/19/oczs-z-drive-priced-at-amazon-1-561-and-way-up/May 19th 2009 9:49AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/19/oczs-z-drive-priced-at-amazon-1-561-and-way-up/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/19/oczs-z-drive-priced-at-amazon-1-561-and-way-up/
This is what you waited all year for
The Z-drive, that's what OCZ is here for..."

And so on. ]]>May 19th 2009 10:19AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/19/oczs-z-drive-priced-at-amazon-1-561-and-way-up/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/19/oczs-z-drive-priced-at-amazon-1-561-and-way-up/
Sorry...my GPS just guided me back to Memory lane.]]>May 19th 2009 9:40AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/19/oczs-z-drive-priced-at-amazon-1-561-and-way-up/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/19/oczs-z-drive-priced-at-amazon-1-561-and-way-up/
Oh shit, ive been done, again :(]]>May 19th 2009 11:23AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/19/oczs-z-drive-priced-at-amazon-1-561-and-way-up/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/19/oczs-z-drive-priced-at-amazon-1-561-and-way-up/May 19th 2009 9:41AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/19/oczs-z-drive-priced-at-amazon-1-561-and-way-up/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/19/oczs-z-drive-priced-at-amazon-1-561-and-way-up/May 19th 2009 9:41AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/19/oczs-z-drive-priced-at-amazon-1-561-and-way-up/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/19/oczs-z-drive-priced-at-amazon-1-561-and-way-up/
Yeah, your supercar thing doesn't hold up too well either. You may have your 2001 Ferrari Speghetti appreciate $10k from list price in 8 years, but it will be the exception. Most luxury and sports cars fall to about 50% of original list after a short time.]]>May 19th 2009 11:18AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/19/oczs-z-drive-priced-at-amazon-1-561-and-way-up/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/19/oczs-z-drive-priced-at-amazon-1-561-and-way-up/
Hey Engadeget, Try going to your local Ferrari or Aston Martin dealer and telling them that the price for the new super sports car is over priced and see if they decide to lower the price or pull out a shotgun and tell you to GTFO!

If you cant pay the $$$ for it you have other options.. Go buy a regular HD, or string a couple of High speed SDHC together. And then use the savings to pay for a little compact GM car...

Too bad this thing did not have an Apple logo on it...

EXPENSIVE GADGETS FTW!!!!!]]>May 19th 2009 9:45AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/19/oczs-z-drive-priced-at-amazon-1-561-and-way-up/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/19/oczs-z-drive-priced-at-amazon-1-561-and-way-up/
You can't buy a cheap GM car, and nobody wants to anyway lol. Cheap Japanese car, yes.GM is in trouble because they produce overpriced crap cars. You can thank the UAW and the poor designers for that one alone.

Your comment about the apple logo is spot on though, These guys would be praising it as a value, and the best thing every created if it had one.]]>May 19th 2009 9:59AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/19/oczs-z-drive-priced-at-amazon-1-561-and-way-up/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/19/oczs-z-drive-priced-at-amazon-1-561-and-way-up/
Sandisk 4GB EXTREME III SDHC SD Card $30

1000/4 = 250
250*$30 = $7500

Thats without all the hardware (RAID card, SD to S-ATA adapters) that you would need for this to be a coherent drive.

You were saying?

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Sports and luxury cars don't mean its a super car.
Most super car owners keep their cars for about a year, and im not sure what you're checking, but the resale of a ferrari, aston martin, etc, don't depreciate as much as you are leading on here. Mercedes, maybe but unless you're talking about the Mclaren SLR or the CLK Black, they don't sell supercars.]]>May 19th 2009 12:17PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/19/oczs-z-drive-priced-at-amazon-1-561-and-way-up/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/19/oczs-z-drive-priced-at-amazon-1-561-and-way-up/May 19th 2009 9:45AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/19/oczs-z-drive-priced-at-amazon-1-561-and-way-up/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/19/oczs-z-drive-priced-at-amazon-1-561-and-way-up/May 19th 2009 9:47AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/19/oczs-z-drive-priced-at-amazon-1-561-and-way-up/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/19/oczs-z-drive-priced-at-amazon-1-561-and-way-up/You cant yet get anthing over 500Gb 2.5" drive wise.
So in short.
No.]]>May 19th 2009 11:28AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/19/oczs-z-drive-priced-at-amazon-1-561-and-way-up/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/19/oczs-z-drive-priced-at-amazon-1-561-and-way-up/]]>May 19th 2009 9:47AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/19/oczs-z-drive-priced-at-amazon-1-561-and-way-up/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/19/oczs-z-drive-priced-at-amazon-1-561-and-way-up/May 19th 2009 7:08PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/19/oczs-z-drive-priced-at-amazon-1-561-and-way-up/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/19/oczs-z-drive-priced-at-amazon-1-561-and-way-up/
It's really only capacity that lags behind. Enthusiasts would be a little mad to stump up that much money, however.]]>May 19th 2009 10:10AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/19/oczs-z-drive-priced-at-amazon-1-561-and-way-up/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/19/oczs-z-drive-priced-at-amazon-1-561-and-way-up/
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I think the sad part is that even with that kind of money, you'd be hard pressed to raid together enough SATA ssd's (with the proper hardware) to get that transfer speed.]]>Jun 11th 2009 12:14PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/19/oczs-z-drive-priced-at-amazon-1-561-and-way-up/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/19/oczs-z-drive-priced-at-amazon-1-561-and-way-up/
raid card + 6 or 8 vertex ssd's....faster, cheaper.

why are you all fawning over this?]]>May 19th 2009 9:57AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/19/oczs-z-drive-priced-at-amazon-1-561-and-way-up/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/19/oczs-z-drive-priced-at-amazon-1-561-and-way-up/
To hit the 250GB size, you'd need 9 of the 30GB SSDs, which (for the Vertex drives you mentioned) go for $200 a piece on newegg. Total cost? $1800 without the RAID controller. Quite a bit more than the Z-Drive.
If you use 60GB SSDs you'd need 5 of them, which at $225 a piece puts you right around $1100. With the RAID controller, you'll end up saving a couple hundred bucks, but performance probably won't match the Z-Drive.

When you start talking about the 500GB and 1TB sizes, the Z-drive wins hands down.

The fact is that the price-capacity-performance ratio on these things isn't really bad. What I wish they'd do is come down in capacity and offer a cheaper model. I'd be giving this a lot more thought at $500 for 60-80GB.]]>May 19th 2009 10:45AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/19/oczs-z-drive-priced-at-amazon-1-561-and-way-up/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/19/oczs-z-drive-priced-at-amazon-1-561-and-way-up/
so 5 x 219 is 1100 + RAID Controller. Not much savings but it is there, plus this would probably blow the doors off this Z-drive (not to mention 50GB more space).]]>May 19th 2009 11:01AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/19/oczs-z-drive-priced-at-amazon-1-561-and-way-up/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/19/oczs-z-drive-priced-at-amazon-1-561-and-way-up/May 19th 2009 12:55PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/19/oczs-z-drive-priced-at-amazon-1-561-and-way-up/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/19/oczs-z-drive-priced-at-amazon-1-561-and-way-up/
250GB / 30GB drive = ~8 drives.
250GB / 60GB drive = ~4 drives.

$99 each x 8 drives = $792. In order to utilize decent speeds you need a high end custom raid system ($500+) in raid-0 as a motherboard raid system can't handle those speeds. The only data I've found online with 4 or 5 of these 30GB Vertex drives ranges from 1,000MB/sec - 1,500MB/sec but it all depends on the raid type, file transfer size, and the type of transfers your doing (sequential, random, etc) The SSD solution wins out in my opinion because you get faster speeds for about the same price. The down side is you have 4 points of failure instead of one if you were using raid 0. You could opt in for raid-5 for almost the same speeds as what this OCZ PCI card provides. The positive to this is you know if one of the SSD fails your data won't be lost.

I'm all for PCI solutions for speed but they are to damn pricey. Even more so then their SSD counterparts because there isn't much competition yet.]]>May 20th 2009 12:54AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/19/oczs-z-drive-priced-at-amazon-1-561-and-way-up/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/19/oczs-z-drive-priced-at-amazon-1-561-and-way-up/
preorder now and watch the price drop in a couple months.]]>May 19th 2009 9:59AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/19/oczs-z-drive-priced-at-amazon-1-561-and-way-up/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/19/oczs-z-drive-priced-at-amazon-1-561-and-way-up/May 19th 2009 10:01AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/19/oczs-z-drive-priced-at-amazon-1-561-and-way-up/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/19/oczs-z-drive-priced-at-amazon-1-561-and-way-up/May 19th 2009 10:22AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/19/oczs-z-drive-priced-at-amazon-1-561-and-way-up/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/19/oczs-z-drive-priced-at-amazon-1-561-and-way-up/
Check Anandtech's write up for technical stuff, but basically once you fill up a SSD it slows down.

Put your applications on the SSD but not your OS. Leave that to a Velociraptor or something.

Or just use a RAM disk for your programs.]]>May 19th 2009 11:28AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/19/oczs-z-drive-priced-at-amazon-1-561-and-way-up/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/19/oczs-z-drive-priced-at-amazon-1-561-and-way-up/May 19th 2009 10:58AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/19/oczs-z-drive-priced-at-amazon-1-561-and-way-up/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/19/oczs-z-drive-priced-at-amazon-1-561-and-way-up/May 19th 2009 10:53AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/19/oczs-z-drive-priced-at-amazon-1-561-and-way-up/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/19/oczs-z-drive-priced-at-amazon-1-561-and-way-up/May 19th 2009 10:53AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/19/oczs-z-drive-priced-at-amazon-1-561-and-way-up/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/19/oczs-z-drive-priced-at-amazon-1-561-and-way-up/May 19th 2009 10:58AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/19/oczs-z-drive-priced-at-amazon-1-561-and-way-up/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/19/oczs-z-drive-priced-at-amazon-1-561-and-way-up/May 19th 2009 10:59AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/19/oczs-z-drive-priced-at-amazon-1-561-and-way-up/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/19/oczs-z-drive-priced-at-amazon-1-561-and-way-up/May 19th 2009 11:09AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/19/oczs-z-drive-priced-at-amazon-1-561-and-way-up/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/19/oczs-z-drive-priced-at-amazon-1-561-and-way-up/May 19th 2009 11:16AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/19/oczs-z-drive-priced-at-amazon-1-561-and-way-up/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/19/oczs-z-drive-priced-at-amazon-1-561-and-way-up/May 19th 2009 11:50AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/19/oczs-z-drive-priced-at-amazon-1-561-and-way-up/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/19/oczs-z-drive-priced-at-amazon-1-561-and-way-up/Double the speed of Z-Drive for the same price, and 128GB is quite enough for OS & apps. Pair of Veloci-Raptors take care of the rest of my data.


]]>May 19th 2009 2:16PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/19/oczs-z-drive-priced-at-amazon-1-561-and-way-up/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/19/oczs-z-drive-priced-at-amazon-1-561-and-way-up/http://www.frozencpu.com for a price of $ 2080 for the 500GB. still expensive but a lot better than Amazon]]>May 19th 2009 12:16PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/19/oczs-z-drive-priced-at-amazon-1-561-and-way-up/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/19/oczs-z-drive-priced-at-amazon-1-561-and-way-up/May 19th 2009 12:20PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/19/oczs-z-drive-priced-at-amazon-1-561-and-way-up/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/19/oczs-z-drive-priced-at-amazon-1-561-and-way-up/
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