OCZ Unveils Colossus LT 3.5-Inch SSD
PrintThere's no mistaking OCZ's new Colossus LT SSD for what it is: a desktop drive. Measuring 3.5 inches, you're not going to stuff one of these inside your notebook, not if you have any hopes of it ever working again, anyway.
"Designed to offer PC enthusiasts a best-in-class storage upgrade from traditional hard disc drives, the innovative Colossus LT Series features incredible speed and ample storage for the complete gamut of gaming, multimedia and demanding productivity applications," OCZ claims. "The Colossus delivers all the proven benefits of SSDs such as superior system responsiveness, ultra-fast data access, and greater durability, while providing the storage capacity desktop users demand."
Available in 120GB, 250GB, 500GB, and 1TB configurations, the Colossus shatters the notion that SSDs have to be short on storage. Noteworthy features include an dual-controller design, internal RAID 0, 128MB of onboard cache, background garbage collection, read and write speeds up to 260MB/s each, sustained writes up to 220MB/s, and max IOPs of 15,000 (4K random).
Street pricing starts at about $450 and goes on up to about $3,500.
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Xtomik
April 14, 2010 at 11:59am
Seems like this would be the prefect drive to have SATA3, is there a version that has it?
snapple00
April 12, 2010 at 8:36pm
3.5 inches?
I've got something that measures about 10 inches....
My GFX card!! Oh! Zing!
Scatmanbrandt
April 12, 2010 at 8:21pm
Agreeing with Nickompoop, I'm surprised no one thought of this sooner but you would think the way technology works, bigger = cheaper
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Keith E. Whisman
April 12, 2010 at 8:05pm
I would like to see what the PCB looks like in that metal case. Specifically I want to know the dimensions. If the PCB inside is 2.5" then I can fit this in my laptop. Just tape or hot glue it down.
Athlonite
April 13, 2010 at 9:49am
proly just two 2.5" ssd pcbs sandwiched together inside an 3.5" case for the 120GB and so on for the larger ones
Play till it breaks then learn how to fix it!
bikerbub
April 12, 2010 at 4:21pm
why not get the pci express version?
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820227500
seems like if you're spending 3500 bucks on an ssd already, you may as well spring for writes and reads 3 or more times as fast.
Peanut Fox
April 12, 2010 at 6:24pm
Because you can't boot from the z. If you can't put your OS on an SSD your turning down a lot of the speed benefits they offer.
bikerbub
April 12, 2010 at 7:24pm
i guess it would depend on the bios, but under the product description, it says you can use it as a primary/boot drive.
M-ManLA
April 12, 2010 at 2:01pm
I would like to see these come out with TRIM support.
Electronically charged
Nickompoop
April 12, 2010 at 1:24pm
You'd think someone would've come up with this already. Better late than never I guess
Neufeldt2002
April 12, 2010 at 1:15pm
Now if only the price would come down, and increase the max IOPs.
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