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It was going to happen sooner or later, and we all knew it would be expensive when it did. OCZ have been the first to jump though, managing to bring a 1TB SSD to market for an eye-watering $1,300.
The OCZ Octane SSD is a 2.5-inch drive with a 6Gbps SATA-III interface offered in 128GB, 256GB, 512GB, and the all new 1TB size. OCZ is claiming that the Octane series offers a new level of performance for “varied workloads,” meaning the drives have been tailored for general use such as transferring files of all different sizes and compression.
This new level of performance is down to the use of the Indilinx Everest controller, which sees the drives able to achieve 560MB/s read speeds and 400MB/s writes. 4K IOPS random reads is rated at 45,000, and latency is pegged at 0.06ms and 0.09ms for reads and writes respectively. The drives are also complemented by a large 512MB DRAM cache.
Investing a lot of money in an SSD is always a tough decision due to their limited life span compared to hard drives. OCZ has alleviated that worry to some extent by including its proprietary NDurance Technology. NDurance is thought to double the life of the NAND storage and increases the program/erase cycles possible from 5,000 to 10,000.
If you don’t have $1,300 to spend on the 1TB model, the 128GB starts at $166, the 256GB is around $310 although final pricing hasn’t been confirmed.
OCZ also announced a second, slower Octane-S2 series that offers the same levels of storage, but relies on a 3Gbps SATA-II connection. The S2 drives achieve 275MB/s and 265MB/s read and write speeds respectively. 4K IOPS is rated at 30,000. No prices were given, but they are sure to be cheaper than the SATA-III Octanes.
Read more at OCZ, via ComputerWorld
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