OCZ Solid 2 SSD Claims to be Affordable Indilinx

[Marcus Yam]

And ultra-affordable SSD? We'll see.

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[jacobdrj]

Cat and mouse... They are waiting on the Intel re-releases...

 

[griffed88]

better be under $150...

 

[ethanolson]

Does it support hot-plug?

 

[xaira]

the new intels were rescently fixed, but i bet they still arent as cheap as these, keep releasing good products ocz, cant wait for vertex 2.

 

[duckmanx88]

ultra-affordable: it'll only cost you an arm. you can keep your leg.

 

[Kaiser_25]

Ya but the speeds still wont touch intels...cheaper is good, but buyer beware, you get what you pay for. my intel ssd has 270 read and 145ish write...

 

[gwolfman]

[citation][nom]duckmanx88[/nom]ultra-affordable: it'll only cost you an arm. you can keep your leg.[/citation]lolz

 

[fonzy]

Probably still to expensive but if this keeps up SSD's will fall extremely fast.

 

[daship]

If prices are right one can get two or more and raid 0, and blow the intel single drive speeds away.

I have 4x Core v2 series got them $69 a pop 30G each, raid 0, 507 reads over 300 writes.

 

[Guest]

How much real performance benefit would such a drive give over a new 7200RPM, 500GByte/platter HDD?

Transfer speeds are comparable but obviously the SSD has lower latencies.

Because unless it's noticeably faster than a HDD with 4-8 times the capacity I still wouldn't buy it unless the price were identical.

Storage systems just isn't enough of a bottleneck for me to be worth these investments.

 

[vant]

Why do people care about sequential speeds so much? Do you transfer 10GB media files everyday?

Toms Hardware- Stop advertising the sequential speeds and start showing what matters.

 

[doomtomb]

125 MB/s read and 100 MB/s write speeds

That's cruddy compared to other SSDs pushing over 230MB/s read. This thing better be affordable.

 

[Gin Fushicho]

If the 128GB is 150 bucks I might actually finally buy one.

 

[snotling]

[citation][nom]doomtomb[/nom]That's cruddy compared to other SSDs pushing over 230MB/s read. This thing better be affordable.[/citation]
I does make sense for laptops... I mean laptops NEED to be slower than desktops otherwise a lot of people will be wrong. Remember the Mhz race?

 

[marraco]

125 Mb/s? I want one capable of SATURATE Sata2. There are already ones.

Somebody knows how to overclock SATA2 ports?

 

[dark_lord69]

I'll believe a low price when I see it.

 

[blackened144]

[citation][nom]kaiser_25[/nom]Ya but the speeds still wont touch intels...cheaper is good, but buyer beware, you get what you pay for. my intel ssd has 270 read and 145ish write...[/citation]
The only ssd Intel sells that can put out those speeds is the E model and the 32gb goes for about $400. Considering you could get 2 30gb Vertex Indilinx based drives for $250 and in raid0 they get better performence than your setup with twice the capacity, I would reword your statement. You get what you pay for, but some people pay more than others and some people get more than others.

 

[TheZander]

The OCZ Solid 2 drives will come in 64 GB and 128 GB sizes, but sadly and curiously, OCZ isn't letting out pricing details on this "ultra-affordable" drive just yet. Looks like we'll have to wait till it hits stores.

That little detail right there kinda makes this non-news for me. All I really care about is what the price is going to be. To say "affordable" is completely subjective and generally meaningless until you attach a number to it.

 

[jokers_greg]

wtb SSD that excels in app performance/gaming ONLY. who cares about any other stats really

 

[ahem]

An affordable SSD? Pssssh....