According to a recent press release, OCZ Technology Co. is going to up the Octane ante with a 1TB solid state drive. Coming in at an MSRP of $3,238 USD (approx. 260,000 yen), the SSD features 1TB of synchronous MLC flash, 512MB of DRAM, and an Indilinx Everest controller bundled in a 2.5” form factor.
The SATA 3 (6Gbps) OCT1-25SAT3-1T SSD not only brings gobs of storage, but puts up some respectable performance numbers. It is capable of 460MB/s sequential reads and 330MB/s sequential write speeds. Also, it can deliver a maximum of 24,000 4K read IOPS (input/output operations per second) and 32,000 4K random write IOPS [the translation may be off here, I was expecting to see the higher IOPS reflected as 4K reads and not writes]. Other drive features include TRIP support, ECC (error correction), AES-256 drive encryption, SMART diagnostics, and a MTBF (mean time between failures) of 1,200,000 hours.
The 1TB SSD is slated for a mid-May release and will come with a 3 year warranty. You know, my birthday is coming up in a couple months… (hehe)
Why would a normal consumer
Why would a normal consumer buy this when you can get 2 512gb drives for less then half of this?
heh they probably wouldn’t.
heh they probably wouldn’t. Especially since they could raid 0 those 2 512 for some screaming performance. Still, 1TB in a 2.5″ SSD has a certain allure.
FYI: The B in MTBF means
FYI: The B in MTBF means between NOT before.
Thanks for the correction, I
Thanks for the correction, I suppose that does make more sense.
am I reading this
am I reading this correctly?
the drive costs $3,200 ?
Possibly, that’s an estimate
Possibly, that’s an estimate based off the Japanese price in the press release, it may well be cheaper in the US or other countries and not a direct currency exchange thing.
“33MB/s sequential write
“33MB/s sequential write speeds” doesn’t sound right
whoops! Thanks for finding
whoops! Thanks for finding the typo, I totally missed that one. Even a slow hard drive is faster than that 😉
still needs to be a lot
still needs to be a lot cheaper, though. however, i’d love to have this in my build.