Just How Fast is OCZ's New 1 TB SSD?

[Guest]

A one-terabyte solid-state drive? That sounds almost as crazy as the device's boasted speeds--600 MB/sec reads and 500 MB/sec writes. A Belgian Web site was able to get its hands (and benchmarks) on OCZ's monster SSD array, and here's how it stacked up!

Just How Fast is OCZ's New 1 TB SSD? : Read more

 

[wicketr]

I'm excited to see where we'll be in 2 years. This is just the tip of the iceberg. The 'hard drive' has been the bottle neck of a computer for a long time, and we're about to see some amazing things in the coming years because of SSD.

 

[68vistacruiser]

So how many writes will it take?

 

[scarpa]

Hell yea, that's fast.

Spinning platters HDD will be obsolete soon,it was about the time for platter HDD to say goodbye, I got tired of them, they served well, rest in peace.

 

[joex444]

I don't believe it. That site didn't even know how to take screenshots, they had pictures of an LCD screen. Fail.

 

[Eric Kolotyluk]

Hey, when will someone benchmark this against FusionIO's ioDrive?

 

[falchard]

I want one. I think I wrote this on the last article about the Z-Drive. I actually might get one considering its price.

 

[Shadow703793]

[citation][nom]joex444[/nom]I don't believe it. That site didn't even know how to take screenshots, they had pictures of an LCD screen. Fail.[/citation]
That was so that they have validity! It's much easier to Photoshop a screen cap than an actual pic of the screen. And even if the pic of the LCD is edited it can be found with a bit of work.

 

[eklipz330]

i think i busted a nut

 

[MoUsE-WiZ]

The speeds are the impressive part so benchmarks aren't too exciting... can go get 4x Apex or Vertex and a decent card for ~1500$ right now and get similar numbers. The TB is the part to drool over, and I don't think that needs benchmarking ~_~

 

[MoUsE-WiZ]

*speeds aren't the impressive part
Is there an edit button hiding somewhere I don't see?

 

[Guest]

Shadow703793: "It's much easier to Photoshop a screen cap than an actual pic of the screen."

Eehhh.. in that case, why then not photoshop a screen cap and take a picture of it being displayed on the LCD. Duh.

 

[descendency]

Uhh... How is everyone managing to miss the 1.5$ per gigabyte price? That's a 50% drop. There is zero chance of this not being out in under a year because of that price. With the way prices are falling right now, Christmas of next year, MLC SSDs should be under 1$ per gigabyte. And SATA 3.

I hope they come out with a small (4x32=128gb would be awesome), bootable, PCI-e 16x 2.0 (8 gb/s max transfer), and inexpensive Z-drive.

Although I might wait for the SLC version because it's nothing more than a RAID and 4 drives.

 

[eklipz330]

correct me if im mistaken, 4x 256gb in raid, correct? so its only 256gb, not 1tb....right?

 

[Guest]

@eklipz330: Stripped not mirrored.

 

[Tindytim]

[citation][nom]eklipz330[/nom]correct me if im mistaken, 4x 256gb in raid, correct? so its only 256gb, not 1tb....right?[/citation]
It's RAID 0.

RAID 0 just stripes information across multiple drives. RAID 1 mirrors it across all the drives in the setup. RAID 5 has what's called parity, while the capacity of a single drive is taken (so in a 4 drive setup, it will only have the capacity of 3 drives), if a single drive fails in the setup up, it can be quickly replaced, and automatically rebuilt.

So RAID 0 isn't really RAID (which is why the '0' makes sense).

 

[bin1127]

so what is it then? is it a 1 TB drive or just a raid setup?

 

[Tindytim]

[citation][nom]bin1127[/nom]so what is it then? is it a 1 TB drive or just a raid setup?[/citation]\r\nA raid setup on a card.

 

[sublifer]

[citation][nom]wicketr[/nom]I'm excited to see where we'll be in 2 years. This is just the tip of the iceberg. The 'hard drive' has been the bottle neck of a computer for a long time, and we're about to see some amazing things in the coming years because of SSD.[/citation]
Now they need to start working out faster controllers with better connections to the rest of the system. Poor hdd controllers have been stuck in slower southbridge chips which will either need to be made faster or they'll have to bring more functionality to the northbridge

 

[Guest]

Amazing: reading at over a 1Gb a second! true HD is near. welcome to the 1 meter monitor

 

[Tindytim]

[citation][nom]Shadow703793[/nom]That was so that they have validity! It's much easier to Photoshop a screen cap than an actual pic of the screen. And even if the pic of the LCD is edited it can be found with a bit of work.[/citation]
Lol, and how hard would it be to take a screen cap, edit it, display it, then take a picture of the LCD? You don't have to mess with the image of the LCD.

 

[Guest]

[citation][nom]Shadow703793[/nom]That was so that they have validity! It's much easier to Photoshop a screen cap than an actual pic of the screen. And even if the pic of the LCD is edited it can be found with a bit of work.[/citation]
Think about this for a second and how ridiculous this sounds--whats to stop someone from forging a screenshot, displaying it on their LCD, and then taking a picture of it for validity? Nothing. Just sayin'.

Wake me up when a 256GB SSD is in the sub $150 range.