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One of the big knocks against SSDs is that they simply don't have the same storage capacities as traditional mechanical HDDs. Well, that argument's about to fly out the window: OCZ is finally making good on its promise to deliver a 1TB SSD as part of its 2.5-inch Octane lineup.
OCZ announced that 1TB Octane drives were coming way back in October, but none had actually made it into the wild. (OCZ already offers a 3.5-inch 1TB SSD, the Colossus.) The Indilinx Everest-based SSD includes a 512MB DRAM cache and a 6Gbps SATA 3.0 interface, but despite that, the rated performance isn't quite as mind-blowing as some of the smaller SSDs available on the market. The drive sports 460/330MBps sequential read/write speeds and 32k/24k IOPS during random 4KB read/writes.
An SSD this big doesn't come cheap, though. The original announcement in Japan's Akihabara newspaper lists a 260,000 yen price; that's around $3,250 USD. Even though the 1TB Octane has only been announced for a mid-May launch in Japan, with no word of U.S. availability, Tom's Hardware reports that U.S. retailers are offering pre-order prices between $2,600 and $3,100. Meanwhile, OCZ's listing of the OCT1-25SAT3-1T on Amazon carries a $2,420 price tag. But hey, that includes free shipping.
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JLloyd13
May 05, 2012 at 7:10pm
now if only ocz could make them last longer then a month (mine died)
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Bam-Bam
May 05, 2012 at 9:23am
If you're really wanting much better bang for your buck, instead of spending ~ $2,420 at Amazon for a single 1-TB SATA-III SSD, you should instead spend $200 more in order to get 1.3 TB of usable space via six (6) Corsair Force GT SATA-III 240GB SSD's (or similar) attached to an LSI 9265-8i MegaRaid Controller with FastPath and a BBU; all for ~ $2,640.
You'll get more usable storage space, and MUCH BETTER PERFORMANCE, as evidenced here:
http://issuu.com/brianam/docs/raid_stats
Obviously not cheap by any means, but hey, if your going to spend ~$2,420 anyway . . .
Just my two-cents worth.
Bullwinkle J Moose
May 04, 2012 at 8:15pm
$3.25 / GB for that?
I noticed some SSD's at Newegg just broke below the Magical $1 / GB number everyone's been waiting for...
yawn
warptek2010
May 08, 2012 at 9:53am
I also remember hard drive prices dropping pretty quickly. SSD prices on the other hand, are dropping but at a nickel and dime rate not at a multi dollar rate as hard drives did. Not enough end users are adopting SSD's it seems.
vrmlbasic
May 05, 2012 at 8:29am
As do I. I also remember the dark days where a 4 GB HDD was doing well, and a terabyte desktop hard drive couldn't be had. I still have a few of my old PATA/33 4 gig drives. Shoot, I remember the days of having to store data on magnetic cassettes; I still have the old C64 tape drive too.
IMO the $1/GB pricing still sucks, let's get to the pre-flood HDD price/gb pricing. Someday these SSDs will come in terabyte capacity for under 100 bucks. If only that day were today.
kixofmyg0t
May 05, 2012 at 7:30am
So you already have like 12 of these right?
Please tell us how much faster ur GTX 690's are too.
Rictorhell
May 04, 2012 at 5:46pm
WHAT?!? They're going to start shipping these so SOON after they announced them!!!! That's so fast!!!! *sarcasm* :(
USraging
May 04, 2012 at 2:50pm
i wonder what kind of warranty they are offering with this. i know that right now plextor is the only ssd manufacturer that is sporting a 5yr warranty on their ssd's. its prob going to be the standard 3 yr warranty.
R01010100
May 04, 2012 at 3:19pm
intel has been offering a 5 year warranty since just after the release of their new ssd's last year. Right now Intel's 320. 330, and 520 series drives all carry a 5 year warranty.
USraging
May 04, 2012 at 3:23pm
your right. intel has a 5yr warranty. thats what happens when you blink in the technology game:P
irishsj
May 04, 2012 at 2:27pm
Just bought a crucial 256gb SSD for $200 and a 1TB velociraptor for $300. $500 total vs over 3 grand. I will wait till about 2019 for a 1TB SSD.
Eoraptor
May 04, 2012 at 11:43am
Eyach...... the other things I could put into a machine at those price levels makes the speed boost honestly seem moot.
mellamojay
May 04, 2012 at 10:59am
I don't get it... Why would anyone want this? If you need 1 TB just get two 512GB and raid 0 them... you get more performance and it costs a hell of a lot less.
tweeve
May 04, 2012 at 11:05am
but then you have all the problems of a RAID 0. if one drive fails you loose everything.
Also it is hard to have a raid in a laptop.
Peanut Fox
May 04, 2012 at 11:15am
This kind of problem is brought up all the time, but it's moot. Having a standard HDD to back up to would protect any data being stored on either of the two drives making cloning data back to the RAID 0 array very easy. Also consider that most people running a RAID 0 setup aren't storing critical information on the drive. RAID 0 by it's very nature is for pure speed, not data redundancy. Besides if you're running on one drive, and that one drive fails you're still in the same situation with loosing all your data.
A bigger caveat here is loss of TRIM. However, most manufacturers offer decent garbage collecting already built into SSDs.
Nailer669
May 04, 2012 at 1:17pm
If you're wanting pure speed with RAID 0, you wouldn't use this drive. A 512GB Vertex4 or similar is much faster (according to specs). tweeve brings up a good point about laptops and RAID. We'd be lucky to have a laptop that is pretty protable and have the ability for RAID anything.. I'm running a 512GB SSD, and I'm out of space with all of my VMs for test environments and development. It'd be nice to have a TB drive, but not $2k nice.
