OCZ's Colossus desktop SSD line ships next week
By Darren Murph 
posted November 18th 2009 3:52PM
posted November 18th 2009 3:52PM
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meh, they have dumbed down the speeds alot, think i saw a press release a few months ago saying they would be 500/600 didn't I? Actually that was the PCI-E version, presume this must be the sata2 version instead. they wont sell many of these! bring out a 500/500 sata3 ssd and i'll think about it.
not yet
You have to agree it is a ridiculous amount of money to be coughing up for a storage medium if you are going to be using it for gaming. You'd probably end up working more time paying for it than it save. For video editing or professional practice it is completely feasible.
Wow, a complete computer with 2GB ram or a basic 14" laptop costs $300...
What's ridiculous is F1 drivers paying millions for their car. Don't they know about Ford Focuses?
Hmm... what is rediculous is that you could BUY ANOTHER COMPUTER, meaning you buy a Laptop, and instead of buying an SSD to make it rugged, just buy a second Laptop and beat the life out of it, and when it breaks you have a fresh one ready to go.
I'm sure the warranty on these SSD's are like 90 days.
3.5" SSD.... Desktop computer. Not laptop :P
Although if you feel you can fit a 3.5 in an ordinary $300 laptop you can try :D
I think you're missing the point of SSD
WTF?
3.5"??
WTF is the use of a 128GB SSD in a DESKTOP????
How often do you drop a Desktop and since when is power source a problem?
The insane speeds of an SSD?
Well Apple charges $1400 for 16GB of ram on the new iMacs. It's the price of admission to the early adopter bleeding edge top of the line club. Or for people with way too much money and don't know wtf to do with it. If any of you are like that, contact me and I'll have you send me money via PayPal. I can put it to good use for you.
@Name: You don't buy an SSD for the durability unless you're in the army. You buy it for the unbelievably fast speeds.
Could anyone tell me what the average read speed a SATA 3.0Gbps drive is? That way I can compare it to these SSDs. I would love to get a fast SSD for booting my OSs off. The 128GB would be plenty for such a purpose.
I wonder how many people are going to pay $2000 for 1TB....thats crazy
In 2003, that's how much 1TB would cost. Of course it wouldn't be nearly as fast or come in 1 hard drive.
i really don't see how they justify that large of a price tag. i know SSD tech is expensive but i just don't see how anyone, save the die-hard enthusiasts, could justify spending $2200 on a 1TB SSD when you can get a 1TB HDD for under $100. i know the performance is way better on an SSD but 22 times better? i don't think so.
but i still want one.
You have to remember HD's have been around for a long time and have had a chance to trickle down in price over the years. SSD is relatively new technology and thus commands such a price premium. I do have to agree though it seems very steep.
right i understand why its expensive i just don't think there is really that much incentive to buy an SSD at this stage in their development. im guessing a year or even six months from now the prices will be drastically reduced. but thats the price you pay for being an early adopter for any new technology i suppose.
@kojo87 Well I just bought two 256 GB SSDs at $750 a pop - one for my internal drive and one for external media storage.
Yeah it costs a bit, but I can afford it, and I hate harddives with a passion. I never again want think if this stall or that clicking noise means my data is gone forever. I've had so many drives die, had to restore so much data, that I'm turned off to spinning platters of metal forever. No more moving parts - that's worth the price premium to me.
Yeah, Amazon has the 250 and 500G models listed for a lot more coin than those "suggested" prices (1300$ and 1800$ respectively).
Amazon has them listed for a LOT more than in this article.
"I just j!$$ed in my pants"
128gb would work for me.
@Chris D. Wasn't too long ago that $2 per gig was the norm pricing. Also put into perspective, My first bought HD was a 5gig Maxtor in 96/97 cost me at least $260. My friends thought I'd never fill that thing up.
well yea I know...I still remember paying $120 for an 80GB HDD back in like 2002 or 2003....but in TODAYS society, I would think the only people that would pay for this would be rather wealthy....
thats because in 2003 there were no other options. SSDs haven't replaced HDDs yet.
true....I won't be getting an SSDs until 2TB is no more than $150.....HOPEFULLY that wont take much longer than 4 years
We're close to the tipping point now. Economies of scale and Moore's Law are going to push us into the SSD-era very soon. I say 18-24 more months before SSDs finally become mainstream.
I believe flash memory is much more expensive than regular HD's. Also, this technology is still in its ealry stages so naturally it will cost much more money right now.
It is also quicker to die. SSD drives keep moving data around to keep from using a single cell too much.
Which one is quicker to die?
Just think... these speeds will be EVEN FASTER when the price hits mainstream.
*jizz*
No mention of TRIM support
Too bad it doesn't support TRIM: http://www.ocztechnologyforum.com/forum/showthread.php?t=64292
What is this Trim Support you speak of?
RicoSuave, it's not the kind of trim you are thinking about...
@ricosuave
It reduces SSD performance declining over time:
http://www.anandtech.com/storage/showdoc.aspx?i=3531&p=10
I love how 99% of the people here know nothing about ssds, including the engadget writers. Citing sequential read/writes is like using the watt rating on a speaker. It means next to nothing in real life. Read the www.anandtech.com articles on ssds if you REALLY want to know about them.
Upgrading to an SSD drive is the best computer upgrade I have ever done.
It isn't for everyone because the price is very high for the amount of space that you get. But if you want a lot of speed and don't need a ton of space you should definitely upgrade.
You morons talking about 'won't get SSDs till they're affordable at 1Tb'
AT CURRENT PRICE POINTS NOBODY (except in enterprise situations requiring massive I/O) USES IT FOR DATA
ITS FOR YOUR SYSTEM PARTITION NOT YOUR DATA
I'll take the 256Gb one once they update firmware w/ TRIM, thank you very much, also bonus no mounting kit required.
@Name, The most popular reason for a SSD is read and write speeds. Shock Resistance and Power Efficiency has absolutely nothing to do with this. There is hardly ANY need in purchasing a SSD 1TB in size. These drives are used for speed. Buy 1 for your OS and program files and your work files, then buy a cheap 2TB HD to store all your music movies and what not.
I recently purchased an SSD and its amazing. The speeds are unreal.
Learn more, http://www.supersway.com
*Kicks Moore's Law in the balls*
WORK FASTER DAMN YOU!
"due to some strange issues with the housing that have been troubling engineers for the past few months"
WTF? Since when does the *housing* trip up an experienced maker of all-solid-state devices with similar products already in the field... for four months? It's an aluminum box!
Don't know if Engadget copied this off the press release, or the marketing folks blew it into their ear... but this is hardly heads-up journalism.
I think one of these companies should play cutthroat and start selling them for slightly above manufacturing costs. I would buy their brand forever >_>
I'm pretty tempted to get a 1 TB one as a media drive for my file server. Maybe in 6mo when the prices have settled a bit.
Yeah it costs a bunch, but never having to worry about drive failure again is worth it to me. I've had so many drives fail over the years that I never ever ever want to see spinning metal discs ever again.
@greenlight
That doesn't really make a lot of sense. You could buy two 2TB drives for like $300 and put them in a RAID 0 configuration and not have to worry about drive failure either. And you'd have 2TB of storage (vs. 1TB) for $300 instead of $2200.
And for sustained writes the SSDs would be slower as well, so putting new media on them would take longer. Sure the reads would be faster, but you likely only need to read them to PLAY them, meaning you don't need them to be fast anyway. Just fast *enough*.
Like others have said here, SSDs are killer for boot/system/application drives. But so far they don't make sense for massive storage, or media applications.
Plus, in case you didn't know this, they do wear out and fail. Just like regular hard drives. Well not the same, but you get the idea. Based on normal usage patterns most manufacturers are giving them 5 year life spans...
Just a note, Amazon is already shipping these with "Only 1 left in stock--order soon (more on the way)."
Price as was mentioned before is way off from what Engadget quotes with the 120G drive going for $600. If it was $300 I would consider it but not right away. Not really wise to put you OS on a v.1 product.