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[Burodsx]

At least the pricing is somewhat competitive... however, it's still a bit on the expensive side. Oh well, give it 3-6 months. ^.^

 

[webbwbb]

People... They are marketting it to people who own database servers and server farms, not gamers. This is actually quite a deal. If you look at the super-talent device in comparison ($5,000 but 30% faster) then you will realize this is a good price for such a storage device in those sectors. Buying one of these for your database server could actually save you a significant amount of money.

 

[jabliese]

All you young whipper snappers out there, let me tell you how it was in the old days. Your motherboard handled the CPU and Memory, and that was it. Your hard disk controller plugged into an expansion slot, and wonder of wonders, hard drives connected to the controller would boot just fine. Just because it is not soldered to the motherboard does not mean booting is out of the question.

 

[El_Capitan]

Does that mean it's bootable? 😛

 

[dark_lord69]

Overpriced...
But give it time people these things will get a lot cheaper.

 

[superblahman123]

OCZ is crazy to assume that consumers are going to jump on this with that price tag, but those read/write speeds are just as crazy. And this is on just a standard PCI-Express slot, imagine what they could do if they could format them to use a PCI x16/2.0 slot?

 

[webbwbb]

"...and meets the demands of the complete range of enterprise storage and data access requirements"

I think that sums it up pretty well. This drive is not made for consumers and I have yet to see such a claim on the part of OCZ or Tom's Hardware. This is for enterprise servers where it IS a value and where it will certainly be picked up by many users.

 

[superblahman123]

[citation][nom]webbwbb[/nom]"...and meets the demands of the complete range of enterprise storage and data access requirements"I think that sums it up pretty well. This drive is not made for consumers and I have yet to see such a claim on the part of OCZ or Tom's Hardware. This is for enterprise servers where it IS a value and where it will certainly be picked up by many users.[/citation]

As much as enterprises would benefit from the speed, they don't care about that as much as the fact that for that price they could buy 10s of TBs worth of standard hard drives that still run at very good speeds (nowhere near this beast, mind you). Reality is, this is just a flashy new piece of SSD that will take quite a bit of time and price drops before they successfully integrate into the market.

 

[bildo123]

[citation][nom]rcpratt[/nom]Unbootable drive is unbootable.[/citation]

If your reading capacity was a little longer than five seconds you would have noticed they clearly stated this drive it bootable.

 

[El_Capitan]

rcpratt :
Unbootable drive is unbootable.



If your reading capacity was a little longer than five seconds you would have noticed they clearly stated this drive it bootable.

But an unbootable drive is unbootable, even though this drive is bootable.

 

[redgarl]

I want to build a 4000$ computer... and I want the 1TB Z drive... >😛 leaving 700$ for the rest.

 

[redgarl]

Of course I was sarcastic... In 5 years, ssd will be affordable... at least I hope...

 

[bildo123]

[citation][nom]El_Capitan[/nom]But an unbootable drive is unbootable, even though this drive is bootable.[/citation]

He was using a meme and referencing "unbootable" drive as the one in the article. I know this as previously these drives were not bootable, he assumed this was the case probably going by just the title.

 

[El_Capitan]

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El_Capitan :
But an unbootable drive is unbootable, even though this drive is bootable.



He was using a meme and referencing "unbootable" drive as the one in the article. I know this as previously these drives were not bootable, he assumed this was the case probably going by just the title

I know, I'm just being a smartass.

 

[cdillon]

[citation][nom]webbwbb[/nom]People... They are marketting it to people who own database servers and server farms, not gamers. This is actually quite a deal. If you look at the super-talent device in comparison ($5,000 but 30% faster) then you will realize this is a good price for such a storage device in those sectors. Buying one of these for your database server could actually save you a significant amount of money.[/citation]

Sorry, but I'm not going to rely on "internal RAID-0" on any of my servers and nobody else in their right mind is going to, either. A Fusion-IO or RamSan-20 card which have internal error-correction and redundancy are still the PCIe cards of choice for servers. This OCZ card focuses entirely on speed with no inherent reliability features and that makes it a "gamer" card whether they want to admit it or not.

 

[El_Capitan]

They need to start doing tests to see how much FPS they get while playing Crisis.

 

[Kl2amer]

I wonder what would happen if they charged $500 for the 256 GB model. 3 would need to be bought to realize the price of the current 1. Figure in the cost of production which can't really be all that high as I'm sure the R&D is what is driving the cost up initially. If they could product enough they would surely sell a whole lot more than 3x the $1500 ones. This would corner the market, make them silly rich, and drive this whole SSD thing forward. Heck, it might even pull us out of recession.

 

[Andraxxus]

$3300 not for the gamer or normal user.

 

[jaragon13]

[citation][nom]guythepro[/nom]"plug-and-play bootable PCI-E solid state drive"I don't know how, but they say it is...[/citation]
By getting a motherboard that doesn't suck, that's how.

 

[jaragon13]

[citation][nom]El_Capitan[/nom]They need to start doing tests to see how much FPS they get while playing Crisis.[/citation]
FPS wouldn't be affected per average, most of the data is stored into RAM when loading the game ( that long-ass period when you see a bunch of % go to 100 ) Of course with this drive that would take about 4 seconds, so...

 

[magicandy]

[citation][nom]mr00000[/nom]Yeah, cause that helps your FPS, right? LMAO. Gamers don't need crazy SSDs unless they're cool with spending thousands of dollars to launch their games faster. Drives like this do ABSOLUTELY NOTHING for your in-game performance.[/citation]

I think it's obvious it won't have any effect on the game's performance outside of loading times, but I think bumping load times to 10x quicker speeds than they are now is a massive improvement by itself. If I could make a small investment to basically make loading times a thing of the past for years to come, you bet I would. Again, I didn't say this was practical for every gamer - obviously the price makes that a reality. I did say however that any gamer who could afford it one way or another will find this worth every penny.

 

[Guest]

At last after waiting for months. Being in the cheap end compared to Fusion IO Drive and RAMSAN's competing product it should be attractive for a lot of database and high IO installations where it is likely that performance will improve beyond the cost.