OCZ Launches Blazing Fast 1TB 2.5-inch SSDs
OCZ Launches Blazing Fast 1TB 2.5-inch SSDs
Posted 10/20/2011 at 10:28am
| by Brad Chacos
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The common line on solid state drives is that you can’t beat their speed, but the itty-bitty storage space capabilities leave a lot to be desired, at least on laptops. OCZ’s new Octane series of SSDs want to put an end to that disclaimer. The Octane line claims to be the first to cram 1 TB of SSD storage into a slim and trim 2.5-inch laptop drive, and if that wasn’t enough, its advertised read-write speeds are freakin’ fast. Maybe they should have called it the High Octane series?
OCZ claims the SATA 3.0 versions of the Octane drives hit 560MB/s read and 400 MB/s write speeds while simultaneously hitting 45,000 random read 4K IOPS. The SATA 2.0 (dubbed the Octane-S2) version is slower, but still manages to hit 275/265MB/s read/write speeds and 30,000 IOPS. That kind of data-pushing is thanks to the new “Everest” controller found inside the drives; OCZ bought Indilinx, the company that makes the controller, back in March. This is the first OCZ product to utilize the technology. As if all that wasn’t reason enough to take a nice, hard look at the Octane line, OCZ claims that Indilinx’s “NDurance” technology makes the drives last nearly twice as long as SSDs from other manufacturers.
Some more specs: the press release promises latency times of 0.06ms read and 0.09ms write, a dual-core CPU, a DRAM cache size up to 512MB, and support for AES and automatic encryption. Expect models ranging from 128GB to 1TB in size to hit store shelves on November 1st.
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Engelsstaub
October 21, 2011 at 4:11pm
Nice. Unfortunately they're going to price it at far more than a new high-end computer.
...I'd like to "win" one or something.
war59312
October 20, 2011 at 6:34pm
Nice! By the time I come back to the US, around April 2012 these bad boys should be a lot cheaper. :)
And maybe it will hit 2TB by then. That's the sweet sport for me. ;)
MrBlueCheese
October 20, 2011 at 6:19pm
Depending on the pricing, the 256GB one looks like a sweet spot for me.
Imagine putting a SSD in a laptop? I'm tempting to try it on my very own.
Biceps
October 20, 2011 at 1:42pm
I have an SSD from OCZ, and it failed after just about 6 months. I've heard from other friends as well that they have had lots of issues with quality with OCZ SSDs - apparently OCZ uses/used lower-quality memory in their SSDs compared with Intel. If I am off-target here, anyone feel free to hop in and correct me - I am just relaying my own personal experience and what I've heard.
I'm sending my drive back this week, and have heard OCZ is actually very good about replacing them quickly. However, having to replace my C: drive every six months isn't exactly something I'm looking forward to, so I hope the next one holds out better.
Chumly
October 20, 2011 at 4:23pm
Yeah, check that off as a fluke and try again. As with the previous reply, I too am heavy on the OCZ SSD's and all are still running just fine. The eldist is a 60G Summit which was rumoured to be plagued due to the controller (and the mantra repeated by non-users) and it's never had a hiccup. The dualing up of the conroller in that model is probably why.
We're all SSD here besides the server, all are OCZ of some sort, and all have been trouble free. Six in home, countless others in outside builds; no failures or flaws.
Slurpy
October 20, 2011 at 2:16pm
For what it's worth, I have three OCZ SSDs and one Corsair (2 years and 1 year old, respectively), and haven't had problems with any of them. Anecdotes of hardware failure aren't really reliable, because they don't reflect the number of units in the field. If there are 10x the number of OCZ units in the public sector, and they have half the failure rate of Intels, you still hear about it 5x as often.
Biceps
October 21, 2011 at 11:49am
Thanks to both of you. Makes me feel better about my investement, and less apprehensive about going to all the trouble of slapping the replacement back into my machine. I'll update this again once I've received my replacement from OCZ.
Coldrage
October 20, 2011 at 12:40pm
Price is probably gonna be high to match it.
Would render the current SSD market obsolete.
joeyjr
October 20, 2011 at 10:55am
Tech just keeps getting better and better, wish the economy would do the same.
Brett Schealler
October 20, 2011 at 10:34am
I want one, but I hear my conscience telling me maybe in 5 years lol.
oh and in the last paragraph, "Expect models ranging from 128MB to 1TB..."
are they realling releasing one that small?
Good writeup.
Brad Chacos
October 20, 2011 at 4:23pm
Nah, he was right. Originally, there was a typo that said 128MB.
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