OCZ’s new Colossus drives are among the first SSDs designed for desktops, and they’re the very first to store up to 1TB of data. Oh, and on top of all that, they work pretty well, too.
PC Perspective tested one of OCZ’s 256GB Colossus drives and found “read and write speeds are about as fast as SATA 3Gb/sec will go!” It’s nuts that our drives are finally catching up with the plentiful, SATA pipelines, even if OCZ has hacked speeds a bit by essentially building one giant drive out of four smaller SSDs.
Whatever works. Now to sell a spare kidney for the $3300, 1TB configuration. Read the full testing results at: [PC Perspective]
colossus, Hard Drives, OCZ, ocz colossus, ssds
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.
OCZ's Colossus desktop SSD gets reviewed: oh yeah, it's fast originally appeared on Engadget on Sun, 22 Nov 2009 20:17:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
Permalink |
PC Perspective |
Email this |
Comments
benchmark, benchmarked, Benchmarks, colossus, desktop ssd, DesktopSsd, Indilinx, OCZ, ocz colossus, OczColossus, Raid, review, reviewed, Sata, sata raid, SataRaid, silicon image, SiliconImage, solid state drive, SolidStateDrive, ssd, storage, TRIM
OCZ Technology has been trumpeting its
Colossus SSD desktop solution
since June, but due to some strange issues with the housing that have been troubling engineers for the past few months, the company has been forced to quietly push back the
expected release date. At any rate, the company has informed us that the drives -- which will arrive in 128GB, 256GB, 512GB and 1TB flavors and tout maximum read / writes rates of 260MB/s -- will begin shipping to retailers "next week." If you're lucky, you might catch one or two e-tailers selling their stock early, but first you'll need to figure out where exactly that $300, $650, $1,200 or $2,200 (in order of mention) is going to come from.
Filed under: Storage
OCZ's Colossus desktop SSD line ships next week originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 18 Nov 2009 15:52:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
Read |
Permalink |
Email this |
Comments
colossus, desktop ssd, DesktopSsd, now shipping, NowShipping, OCZ, ocz colossus, OCZ technology, OczColossus, OczTechnology, ship, shipping, ships, solid state drive, SolidStateDrive, ssd, storage
We got a
brief glimpse of OCZ's massive new Colossus SSD drive at Computex last month, and gotten the
official word on most of the basic specs straight from OCZ itself, but we've only just now gotten a look inside that slightly mysterious-looking black box and, well, there's a whole bunch of SSD chips inside. Available in capacities ranging from 128GB to 1TB, all of the drives boast a tightly packed design that includes a pair of Indilinx controllers and some associated DRAM cache for each, along with a dual-drive, single PCB implementation that makes it all appear as a single drive to the system. Still no word on a release date just yet, unfortunately, but it looks like these'll start at $299 for the 128GB drive.
Filed under: Storage
OCZ's Colossus SSD comes out of its shell originally appeared on Engadget on Sat, 25 Jul 2009 07:26:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
Read |
Permalink |
Email this |
Comments
colossus, OCZ, ocz colossus, OczColossus, ssd, ssd drive, SsdDrive
