OCZ Cuts the Price of Its 64GB SSD Again
OCZ Cuts the Price of Its 64GB SSD Again
Posted 09/18/2008 at 11:06pm
| by Paul Lilly
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Arguably no other company is doing more to push SSDs into the mainstream than OCZ, who earlier this year released its Core Series SATA II SSD drives, undercutting the competition in price and hurdling past in performance. Now the company is at it again, slashing prices one more time.
It was just a week ago that OCZ's 32GB Core SSD dropped down to just $99 after mail-in-rebate, and now the company's 64GB model is receiving similar treatment. Newegg is now selling the bigger model for the same price after a $70 mail-in-rebate, which means you can now get double the storage space for a single C-note than what you could have received last week.
It's not all peaches and cream, though, as the price cuts come on the heels of heavy criticism by Anandtech, who faulted the drives for random write issues resulting in "horrible stuttering/pausing/lagging."
Is the new low price per gigabyte enough to make up for SSD technology's shortcomings?
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Scorponok
September 19, 2008 at 5:38am
I've been thinking about getting a SSD, and this price drop seems great, but I was wondering if you can use these in a RAID 0 setup for even more speed?
digitaljones
September 19, 2008 at 2:03pm
Yes you can. I have 2 of original OCZ 32GB SSDs running striped using this http://www.addonics.com/products/raid_system/images/sas_diagram_large.jpg
waessner
September 19, 2008 at 5:25am
Can anyone confirm this? I have scoured Newegg, and found no such prices for OCZs SSDs, much less the 64GB version. Try $689 on for size!
<http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820227295>
nsvander
September 19, 2008 at 6:08am
The drive that you have there is a different model. The other drive has since be deactivated by newegg. Its a shame too, I have a small notebook that I use for work, and was looking to install one of those in it, it gets bumped around a lot riding in my service truck.
Drive Link
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820227344&Tpk=N82E16820227344
Rebate Link
http://images10.newegg.com/UploadFilesForNewegg/rebate/SH/OCZ8MIRsSep17Sep3008jh28.pdf
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