OCZ Onyx SSDs Start Under $100

[blashyrkh]

My velociraptor performs at this level and If I get a second one in RAID 0 I believe i will be faster. Plus i have 300GB of storage for my games

 

[arlandi]

well... whatever it is, it's just nice to see a technology got cheaper and cheaper. i know this will push traditional hard disk even better!

 

[invlem]

Nice to see cheaper prices, but if you spend 5 minutes you can probably find the 30gb vertex with a MIR that will put you under $100 as well.

 

[jimkiler]

More SSD products is a good thing and can only help the prices come down.

 

[chomlee]

I just got a vertex 30GB for $69.00 after rebate from newegg. It seems almost meaningless to have a low end model like this unless it would have 60 gig for around the same price as a 30 gig vertex. I doubt that would happen because the cost of the memory chips are pretty well fixed for now.

 

[dark_lord69]

This product is all good and everything but I need a cheap SSD using a PATA connection. I am worried about buying one cause I worry that the cheap ones will have the JMICRON controller issue.

Can someone tell me where to get a good PATA SSD for a low price that DOESN'T have the JMICRON issue?

 

[tsnorquist]

I'll have to hold off for a couple years. When a 250GB drive is available with good randoms, for $150 I'll buy.

It just makes no sense (from a performance/dollar ratio) to buy these now when you can run a quick raid array.

 

[gnice3d]

industrial_zman:

WTF are you smokin, Bro? Whatever it is, you can hook me up with some of that right now! You either as high as Gary Busey or you have no idea what you are talking about.

You can easily fit a full Ubuntu desktop install with all the gizmos and have a separate 15gb partition for storage. My thinkpad trip boots Mac-OS, Win7 and Karmic from an 80gb drive with no problems at all.

Think (or read) before your speak my friend.
^_^

 

[Guest]

It would be a good idea to wait for actual pricing at Newegg before you compare $/Gb. One thing that strikes me is that if this drive ends up being significantly cheaper than the Barefoot controller version, it means that Indilinx is getting a very large price for the Barefoot controller. That would mean we need more competition from controller makers to drive down the final price.

 

[sliem]

Alright! Wait a few more months and it'll be $80 or hopefully much less once they have 2TB SSD lol!

 

[dupaman]

WOW!!!! $100 for a 32GB drive? Kind of like the similarly-performing/priced (based on the limited info given here) 1st gen JMicron-based drives from almost 2 years ago that ended up selling for a lot less than that when it became apparent that they weren't good. Now that's progress in the value dept.

 

[GullLars]

What's the 4KB random IOPS numbers (both max and sustained)? And does it support NCQ and TRIM?

 

[alextheblue]

[citation][nom]dark_lord69[/nom]This product is all good and everything but I need a cheap SSD using a PATA connection. I am worried about buying one cause I worry that the cheap ones will have the JMICRON controller issue. Can someone tell me where to get a good PATA SSD for a low price that DOESN'T have the JMICRON issue?[/citation]I'm not sure a PATA system can fully utilize a really good SSD. I mean, if you're stuck with PATA... its probably a pretty ancient system. This is kind of like responding to a news article about Fermi and saying you need an AGP version. No offense.

 

[Guest]

Seems like an interesting drive! Any idea when this will become available on the streets, and where?

I guess newegg might have this!

 

[Guest]

[citation][nom]__-_-_-__[/nom]"the greater good :
125 / 70 is too slow. I'd rather spend the extra 20-40 bucks and get read speeds up to 250 MB/s. Then again, I'd just buy two or three and run a disk stripe. Not using these slow things, however..."

correction: spend the extra 200-400bucks and get read speeds up to 250 MB/s[/citation]
It all depends on the controller. Noone needs or even is able to harvest the fullest of those 250MB/s out of those drives anyways...
250MB/s with a JMicron controller might be slower than 100MB/s with a better controller.
It's the random writes, and simultaneous R/W speeds that make an MLC SSD slow.
With a good controller, or an SLC drive, a 60/60MB/s SSD is more than fast enough for just about anything!
More than twice the performance of most harddrives (especially mobile ones), extreme low latencies, and a speed that's faster than just anything except CPU and ram speed.
Transferring data from one drive like this over USB saturates the USB2.0 line anyways.

 

[Guest]

I wish people would stop with the "you can get drive X for X$ after rebate at newegg - this drive is too expensive" or "you can get a 250GB SSD for X$/gb - this drive is too expensive". Do not compare apples to oranges.

When you are looking at a new 30GB drive, that is not in stores yet. You have to compare it to other 30GB drives without rebates of any kind.

The price after rebates is not to be considered as the actual price of the disk. That is only an added incentive to purchase. But it does not affect the argument that Drive X is too expensive. You just found a deal that MAKES drive Y a better option - this is not Drive X's fault. You have to compare the default prices.

And just like everywhere else - if you buy 300 items you can get them cheaper than if you buy 30. Of course a 250GB disk will be cheaper pr GB than a 30GB. Don't compare apples to oranges

 

[misry]

Just picked one of these guys up at a national retailer for $70 with a $20 MIR. Using it in my "work" laptop and am battery testing as I type, (1:30 in and have 60% remaining). $50 to double my usable time for network troubleshooting is amazing and when I need a bigger drive this one will move to desktop boot duty. I've got XP fully updated and all my tools, (still zipped), loaded and still have 20G remaining. Sorry if you can't make a 32G drive work but then you probably never had to scour your text files removing spaces and lines to save bytes on a 10M drive.