It's been a long time coming, hasn't it? OCZ Technology's
Colossus is the outfit's first in the desktop SSD space, and with capacities scaling as high at 1TB, it's certainly tempting for performance junkies who just can't pry themselves away from their tower. The benchmark-minded kids over at
PC Perspective were able to get a drive in with final firmware a few weeks back, and they've pushed out a full review just prior to these things
hitting retail en masse. Needless to say, all the numbers in the world won't make this any cheaper, but for those willing to spend at least $3.24 per gigabyte on internal storage, there's hardly a better option out right now. Reviewers found that read and write speeds seriously pushed the SATA 3Gb/sec limit, and the latter were "faster than on any SATA device tested to date." Sadly, the lack of TRIM support and the inability for end-users to upgrade the firmware put somewhat of a damper on things, but if neither one of those tidbits bother you, pulling the trigger just might be the right thing to do.
posted November 22nd 2009 8:17PM
XP is still the best Windows OS.
$3300 for the 1024GB?! That's around the same as the Mac Pro. Still's a better value though.
oooo flamebait! too bad I'm not hungry.
Actually I have one of the 2.5" Intel X25 SLC Flash based SSDs and it runs VERY cool.
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Same here, shame about their TRIM firmware though.
you guys realize this is nothing more than a Re-badged Samsung. Why the heck would anybody buy a brand-name, just because it looks cooler.. what frivolity
The OCZ Summit series of solid state drives is based on a brand new controller from Samsung - so new in fact that our testing drives were actually "glued" together and the name of the controller was sanded off before they arrived to us here. Because these are very early engineering samples they aren't pretty looking - hand applied stickers, etc. But what is important of course is performance, not looks.
http://www.pcper.com/article.php?aid=666
Samsung, do your part and advertise your damn products. why let a stupid leach like OCZ buy your technology and then re-sell to ignorant folk?
Is it really worth it to the vast majority. It seems that tech recently is more or less feeding exclusively on the keeping up with the Joneses.
Umm... well yes. Not the Colossus, but SSDs are much more useful than most jumps in CPU or GPU power.
Seriously, a JMicron controller?
Stay well away. Anyone who's read a decent amount of SSD reviews over the last couple of years knows to stay the hell away from those things.
X25-M is still the best.
I hope they use these in that project Dr. Forbin is working on.
It's very fast, but the TRIM support and maturity of say, the X25M 160GB seems to be more confident for the same price.
RAID 0 a few X-25M and you're gunna get way better bang for buck...
most desktop PC have the space for it too, no excuses :)
It will take years to get one of these down into a reasonable price range. I'm sad.
OCZ needs a marketing department... Their logo is so terrible, I cannot take their product seriously despite it's awesomeness. It looks like a 5th grader did it. I can totally picture the words "TOTALLY RAD" in the same font next to the Z.
I think everyone wants an SSD. Due to the fact that's the one thing that majorly slows down my computer for having multiple programs at once but the technology is just too expensive right now.
I personally hate raiding a computer but just a 64GB SSD will do next year hopefully; and I can wait for even faster drives in mass production.
I would be happy with 50MB/s sustained read/write, so make it cheaper already! My HDD only gets 30 max.
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