OCZ intros 2.5-inch Agility SSD line: 120GB for $349.99

OCZ Technology seems to always be toiling away on new solid state drives, but it's rare to find any from the company that are priced for the average Joe / Jane. Rather than aiming specifically for the fat-walleted enthusiast crowd, the Agility series is hoping to make a decent sized splash in the mainstream market. These 2.5-inch SATA II SSDs promise 230MB/sec read and 135MB/sec write speeds, along with 64MB of cache and a two-year warranty. We pinged OCZ for details surrounding pricing and availability, so here's the dirt: the trio of models will be available in a fortnight or so for $129.99 (30GB), $219.99 (60GB) and $349.99 (120GB).

[Ruben Posted Jun 11th 2009 8:33AM]

You fail to see the point for SSD's.

While they wont offer comparable space as regular drives at around the same price per GB, they utterly annihilate standard hard drives in almost all performance tests.

And its not by a little. Its by a whole shit load.

These are not meant to replace existing drives. They are meant to augment an existing set of regular hard drives. The SSD's act as your main OS hard drive(s) and store as many applications that can fit. Your standard data, such as music, videos, and pictures, get stored on regular hard drives. Games you play most often get loaded on the SSD, while others that do not benefit much from the SSD's performance stay on your standard drive.

[brothaa Posted Jun 11th 2009 12:48AM]

yes, the prices are starting to get to an .... almost reasonable number #

hopefully with the depression prices continue to fall, and before you know it we will have super cheap ssds :P

[Oli D Posted Jun 11th 2009 2:39AM]

Argh! Yes you could probably get a 1.5Tb drive for this, but this isnt a HDD!

Stop making this comparison, if you need to store 1.5Tbs of... whatever you store in there, then get that drive.

If, however, like me, you want freakish access times and fast application loading, invest in one of these.

Or... just wait until it gets cheaper.

[ElMUERkO Posted Jun 11th 2009 5:27AM]

i like where prices are going but i'm going to hold off getting any SSD products till the prices drop and they controllers improve... four disk raid array for christmas me thinks :D

[(Unverified) Posted Jun 11th 2009 9:40AM]

Just get a generic Samsung SSD: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820233075

[(Unverified) Posted Jun 13th 2009 1:09AM]

so these slot in under the vertex in OCZ's lineup then? makes me feel pretty good about paying 124.99 for a 30GB vertex on the weekend.