OCZ Colossus is 3.5'' SSD, 1TB, Fast, Expensive

[greenbuck]

This is a beauty...I want one. I might have to wait 5 years though until the price becomes affordable.

 

[orac4prez]

There are many niche applications where this is going to be a godsend. I work on very large complex computations, which use humongous swap files (almost 1TB) and massive amounts of RAM. This will provide a huge boost to performance, especially if I put a few drives together (I run 15,000rpm SAS drives now!). I know of people doing quantum mechanical computations on big (real) molecules and to get usable numbers the level of theory needs to be high. For games and entertainment, I might have to give a pass on this one!

 

[matt87_50]

this is such a rip! just buy two 2.5 inchers of half the size and raid 'em yourself.

 

[megamanx00]

Way

Too

Expensive.

 

[digitalrazoe]

I can get a pack of ten 2TB Western Digital Caviar Black HDD (spinners) for that price with Change to spare... SSD 1TB for $500 sure .. $1000 maybe but 3397? Thanks but no thanks.

 

[El_Capitan]

I'm getting 6 of these 1TB babies and putting them in RAID 0 on my $450 gaming rig. It's going to kick some serious @$$!

 

[tester24]

Yeah screw that! for that much I can buy a good raid card, buy 6 2TB HD and put them in a raid 10 configuration (1+0 so you have a mirrored stripe). And get close to that performance with 6 times the capacity.

 

[ElectroGoofy]

-puts mortgage on house- Yay! Now I am halfway to affording a 1tb SSD!

 

[Guest]

Those are more like SLC prices than MLC prices.

 

[lemonade4]

"internal RAID 0 architecture".

the reason they cost so much more than the current 2.5" SSDs?

 

[Nexus52085]

[citation][nom]7amood[/nom]OVERPRICED... Why such high prices??? seems like people do buy em'Intel's 2nd generation 128GB SSD's price is a lot cheaper... where is the competition??I hope the overpricing is justified by a big leap in speed... gotta see a review first.[/citation]
R&D costs, my friend.

 

[claudeb]

this is stupid. i would rather scale 8 128gb ssds for less $ and more speed.

 

[starryman]

Not for a moment do I think this is expensive. If you have a home computer or game computer this is a drastically out of your league. But in the high-end world this is very cheap. 7 years ago a $25,000 SSD 1 TB would have been a bargain but the more realistic price would have been $60,000-$100,000. I'm actually amazed at how cheap this is and how helpful it would be in database systems.

 

[jacobdrj]

Won't it be bus limited by SATA?

 

[Area51]

NO mater how fast these drives are, you are still limited to the SATA II connection. It's better to have 16 Intel SLC drives with 2 LSI card. It is going to be cheaper and faster.

 

[Area51]

NO mater how fast these drives are, you are still limited to the SATA II connection. It's better to have 16 Intel SLC drives with 2 LSI card. It is going to be cheaper and faster.

Sorry I was actually thinking of the 80GB MLC's

 

[gravitygirl]

Still too expensive for my porn. But talk to me next year when the price comes down. Okay two years maybe.

 

[Dax corrin]

[citation][nom]El_Capitan[/nom]I'm getting 6 of these 1TB babies and putting them in RAID 0 on my $450 gaming rig. It's going to kick some serious @$$![/citation]
Sure you are. Go back to smoking crack.

 

[warezme]

My badass rig did cost more than the 1TB model but I still think its not worth it.

 

[darkproject]

i would buy a PCI SSD

 

[ominous prime]

I'm glad to see a higher capacity for the SSD's, but at that price point they just aren't sensible.

 

[zcubed]

No TRIM support yet for these drives according to OCZ: http://www.ocztechnologyforum.com/forum/showthread.php?t=64292

 

[bildo123]

Meh, lets chat a year from now.

 

[Caffeinecarl]

A pair of 512 GB units in RAID-0 would be amazing... and the lowest cost per gig. I don't always need ALL that extra space, but I have used that much on rare occasions. Ahh, for the days when the prices will come down!

 

[NightLight]

Anyone who buys this is just an idiot. I consider myself an extreme builder, and I wouldn't touch this with a ten foot pole. Shame on the
ocz people for even thinking of inventing a piece of hardware over 1000$. It just will not sell! People should be fired for this.