New OCZ SSD Line Offers 1 TB, "Instant On" Support

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No price, big surprise.

This is a sweet drive, but it's going to be WAY too expensive for the average consumer. Why the hell would you spend so much on something where performance is somewhat negligible compared to other components? (CPU,GPU, RAM etc.)

"Look my applications open up a few seconds faster than yours"

Yeah and you spent over a grand on a hard drive!
 


This is NOT for an average consumer.
 
[citation][nom]amk-aka-phantom[/nom]This is NOT for an average consumer.[/citation]
What about "enabling "fast boot" in consumer applications." And the "Instant On" feature?

Sounds like everything is advertised towards the average consumer, except price.
 


... and the price is what decides.
 
[citation][nom]beardguy[/nom]What about "enabling "fast boot" in consumer applications." And the "Instant On" feature?Sounds like everything is advertised towards the average consumer, except price.[/citation]
No average customer is going to be buying the 1TB HDD, which is what would cost over a grand. For the average customer, 128GB is more than enough with a secondary conventional (or hybrid) HDD for mass storage. The price on these, according to another source, is supposed to be in the $1.10/GB to $1.30/GB range. That's more than worth it for the increased performance, which is much more than just programs starting a few seconds faster.
 
[citation][nom]bennaye[/nom]"New OCZ SSD Line Offers 1 TB, "Instant Bankrupt" Support"Fix'd.[/citation]
OCZ DID RELEASE A 2TB ssd for 2k
 
[citation][nom]Kyuuketsuki[/nom]No average customer is going to be buying the 1TB HDD, which is what would cost over a grand. For the average customer, 128GB is more than enough with a secondary conventional (or hybrid) HDD for mass storage. The price on these, according to another source, is supposed to be in the $1.10/GB to $1.30/GB range. That's more than worth it for the increased performance, which is much more than just programs starting a few seconds faster.[/citation]

I disagree. I would never buy such a small SSD. I could easily take up 128GB with just games and my OS. And what's the point of buying an SSD if you can't even fit all your apps/games/OS onto it?

Not trying to get in a debate, just saying though ... with standard HD's being so cheap, many people are accustomed to having 1TB+ of storage now.

Personally, I'll wait until the cost/capacity drops on SSD's.
 


Well, you're an exception. 128GB is normally plenty even for most enthusiasts. Me, I'm somewhat on a budget - I'm going to get 60/80GB, which is loads. Windows 7 is rather light (pwn the pagefile and the hibernation file, and it's even smaller!) and I can install the games on my HDD.
 
why put your games on a hdd though? so now only windows, office and IE benefit from the SSD? Does'nt that seem pointless to you? There are lots of games out there full of load screens (Portal 2 for example) that could benefit quite a bit from an SSD. Not to mention upcoming BF3 that will require going to IE to switch to a new game server, though I'm not sure if that will close the game completely or just minimize it. BF2 load screens on high quality settings and resolution when joining servers were LOOONG for me.
 


Not only Windows and office... though, fast loading times for all programs is alone worth it. Most of the game loading screens are limited to a certain fixed length. For example, Mass Effect 2 loading screens are outrageously long - I replaced them all with Mass Effect 1 loading screen and they're MUCH faster. Most likely, I'll keep a few games I'm playing currently on the SSD, but otherwise I'm not bothered by loading times at all.
 
I just got the 120 GB Intel 320, and only select games will go on it... along with the OS. Non-critical load time games will still go on my RAID of 3 74 GB Raptors, at 10K RPM. They will still load pretty quickly from them. I found that BF2 load times before RAID = take a nap, the Raptor RAID was significantly faster, and SSC load faster still.
 
1TB Hitachi Deskstar is $70 on newegg.ca - seriously, anybody stupid enough to think that they need an SSD drive for data files deserves to be ripped off. 60GB is all you need, perhaps 80GB if your needs are specific, for the OS, and pretty much all applications you will ever need. My 60GB SSD holds Windows 7, Office Pro, CS5, and all the other applications I use - plus a game or two, depending. When I finish with the games, I simply secure erase the drive, and reload the fresh image I made initially - update what needs to be updated, do a new image - and that way I always have an up-to-date image ready to go. Anyways, 1TB SSD, at this stage, is laughable.
 
"When I finish with the games, I simply secure erase the drive, and reload the fresh image I made initially - update what needs to be updated, do a new image - and that way I always have an up-to-date image ready to go. Anyways, 1TB SSD, at this stage, is laughable."

What a pain in the ass...all because your SSD doesn't have enough storage 😛

Why don't you just uninstall the games you've finished and install new ones?

 
[citation][nom]omnimodis78[/nom]1TB Hitachi Deskstar is $70 on newegg.ca - seriously, anybody stupid enough to think that they need an SSD drive for data files deserves to be ripped off. 60GB is all you need, perhaps 80GB if your needs are specific, for the OS, and pretty much all applications you will ever need. My 60GB SSD holds Windows 7, Office Pro, CS5, and all the other applications I use - plus a game or two, depending. When I finish with the games, I simply secure erase the drive, and reload the fresh image I made initially - update what needs to be updated, do a new image - and that way I always have an up-to-date image ready to go. Anyways, 1TB SSD, at this stage, is laughable.[/citation]
Why? Why do this? All your doing here is writing more data to your limited number of writes on your SSD. there's no reason you couldn't just uninstall a game or app when you're finished with it.

I have a 64gb OS SSD, 120GB game SSD, 2 1TB HDDs and a 1TB external drive.

I have windows installed on the OS drive minus user folders and temp folders, I've moved those to a HDD. The 120 game SSD is just steam and other games. when I'm done with a game i steam backup it my external then uninstall and install the next one i want to play.

There's no reason to do a secure erase and reinstall a back up image, when you can just uninstall.
 
The published speeds probably are 1 TB (more channels)versions. Would like to know specs of the smaller and more realistic versions. NAND flash market drives SSD prices (which in fact compete against mobile devices where HDD can't compete). Better controller sometimes will translate to worse/cheaper NAND. Although is not a huge leap, with the new Samsung SSD are steps forward in the right direction. Price per GB of NAND will keep related to lithography node and density (NAND size will grow, price will keep). These are bad news when you realise the 20+nm node, just at the end of the road. Even so, SSD makers manage to get the price per GB fall day after day. Speeds are climbing high enough to retire interfaces before they get mainstream...
 
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