The OCZ Colossus may not be a good idea, particularly since it is going to be used in a desktop with relatively abundant space and connections. I guarantee that two OCZ Vertex drives running in RAID0 will be far faster, at least in sequential speeds. The problem is that the Colossus only uses one SATA connection which is limited to just under 300MB/sec in SATA II. Considering the fact that one OCZ Vertex (same controller) can hit over 200MB/sec in seq and 250MB/sec in burst, there is no doubt in my mind that a Colossus will be bottlenecked by the SATA interface. They should really just focus on the PCI express based product for desktops, or just make the 3.5 drives use one controller.
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The OCZ Colossus may not be a good idea, particularly since it is going to be used in a desktop with relatively abundant space and connections.
I guarantee that two OCZ Vertex drives running in RAID0 will be far faster, at least in sequential speeds. The problem is that the Colossus only uses one SATA connection which is limited to just under 300MB/sec in SATA II. Considering the fact that one OCZ Vertex (same controller) can hit over 200MB/sec in seq and 250MB/sec in burst, there is no doubt in my mind that a Colossus will be bottlenecked by the SATA interface. They should really just focus on the PCI express based product for desktops, or just make the 3.5 drives use one controller.