OCZ preps SATA and SATAII solid state drives

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" Memory modules more or less lead to flash drives and these in term can lead to solid state drives so it comes to no surprise that OCZ is currently working on a few SSDs. As promised OCZ has brought a lot of new things at CES and its first SSDs can also be seen at its booth. For starters OCZ is showcasing 2.5-inch 64GB SATA drives but its upcoming line-up will also include faster and SATAII models.

Both SATA and SATAII drives will come in 32 and 64GB versions and will feature low power consumption and a mean time before failure of 2,000.000 hours. The differences between the two types of SSDs will basically be price and transfer speeds - the SATA drives will offer a maximum of 58 MB/s and 35 MB/s when reading and writing respectively while the SATAII models will reach 120 MB/s and 100 MB/s. OCZ's plan seems to be to release the SATA drives first but there's no time line yet. But we're talking 2008 here. "



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http://www.tcmagazine.info/comments.php?shownews=17563&catid=2
 
Which this competition + further developments in the technology will take care of, this year really might break 200£ for 64gb, would be great seeing as that would probably mean 100£ for 128gb next year, and i'm willing to pay that for great performance.
 
i'd be certainly interested in a SATA II SSD 64/128GB, providing its under £250 for the 128GB and about £120-150 for the 64GB
 
Maybe £300 for the 64GB SataII and £450 128GB SataII

Hope they are cheap, i think this will force SSD to the market more.
 
Looks identical to my Samsung drives, with the only difference being the OCZ logo on it.

Edit: Performance figures for the 64GB version is identical as well.
 
hurry up bring the price down! my laptop really REALLY need a solid state hard drive. 60GB 2.5" 7200rpm seek time is biggest slow down for my laptop :(
 
The developments in the SSD tech and market are very exciting. Looks like 2008 could be the year this really moves into the consumer market in a big way. Hopefully we will all be using these in a few years, and can ditch noisy hard drives.
 
>:|sh4d0w|:< said:
The developments in the SSD tech and market are very exciting. Looks like 2008 could be the year this really moves into the consumer market in a big way. Hopefully we will all be using these in a few years, and can ditch noisy hard drives.
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You're right. that day will be so lovely :D
Not sure it's gonna happen in 2008 though, or even 2009, but technology does move slowly, and with the dollar being so bad, it might not be completely crazy :)
 
why would you buy one for 200 quid or even 100 quid? do you lot all move realllllly big files? but then... if you do why would you get one if its only 64gb. Doesn't make sence, they are pointless. They ahve fast transfer speeds for big files but no capacity to hold enough of them to make them worth while.
 
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