Who cares if there are a few issues. The fact is that they are available, and post good numbers, most of the time. This in and of itself is a huge pressure on other manufacturers to get products out the door, faster, and cheaper to compete, because their is a perceived loss of market share to OCZ simply because other companies don't have competitive products yet.

Compare the SSD market now with before OCZ announced it's first product, and look at how many manufacturers have something awesome in the wings to compete and grab market share in a "new" area.

Intel is a semiconductor company after all, they might want Intel Inside to mean, CPU, MB, SSD, and graphics someday. That seems to be the tack their taking...and I can only say that these events are good for all of us in the long run, so theres no need to be curmudgeonly and pee in everyone kool-aid just because 6.5TB drives that max SATA-3 aren't 20 bucks yet. The HDD has long been the slowest part of the PC, I have been waiting for the SSD revolution for a LONG time.

Mainly because when they die, there won't be that spine-chilling "clunk-clunk" noise that I fear more than anything else...

so now you can speed up your core2 system with a core2 hdd. mwahaha, marketing is awesome.

we have an mtron deployed (actually 2 in RAID0) and there is a huge problem with random pauses in XP. they usually occur when performing random writes. I've read that this is a problem with OCZ's Core series as well.

i don't know if its an issue with intel's soutbridge (the drives are on a gigabyte 965p-ds3) or what, but its a giant PITA.

We've had Core V2s around here in Sweden for a week I think...
Can give you a few prices:
30GB @ €215
60GB @ €305
120GB @ €535

barich: Since you don't even seem know the reason I bet it's a really bad one.

tulcod: the main reason for the difference in prices are taxes, taxes, toll fees and taxes... everything imported from outside the EU is hit with a sh..load of extra taxes to make us buy "domestic", problem is, there are very few foundries and factories making electronics in the EU so it just gives them a lot of extra taxes.

If I recall, SSD's are still slower than standard magnetic hard disks in several benchmarks right?

They aren't a 100% no questions asked improvement across the board in all applications.
(perhaps I'm wrong but I'm pretty sure I recall being disapointed reading the reviews)

Also, I want to see 400mb a second reads, 200mb a second writes, all benchmarks noticable improvements and a cost no more than 100% more than magnetic drives (for the same space) - once this occurs, I'm in, until then, I don't feel they are a wise decision.

i guess i got lucky enough to not find out how bad their customer service is. none of their products have failed on me and theyve all been a good deal. its a bummer they appear to have such crappy customer service, im going to avoid them.

"Nice" to read on OCZs forum that i945 doesn't perform well with their SSDs as all Atoms come with 945... The same user got perfect performance from the same disk on a P35 system though so the problem is compatibility, not accual performance/quality. At least that's the way I understand it after reading several posts in the OCZ forum.

My god. It's unbelievable, isn't it? What costs 1170E in the EU costs 680E in America. It's not exactly fair.
The worst part is: what TR guesses in the article in relation to the price... is true! All tech is expensive here.

OCZ is on the bleeding edge of delivering this product. I fully expect some form of data corruption issues to arise not only with their products, but numerous other designers for the next 12 months or so.

When we start seeing enterprise rollout of these kinds of drives, then we'll know some level of maturity has hit (between the tech itself, firmware, and os combinations).

For some reason I just don't trust OCZ products.

Um, maybe you should mention the many users who are having serious performance issues, freezing and hangs with the OCZ SSDs:
http://www.ocztechnologyforum.com/forum/showthread.php?t=40968

This caused notebook OEM Saga to drop OCZ drives from their range:
http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=280597

OCZ have one of the worst reputations in the industry for shipping questionable and unreliable products with no support, renowned for fobbing off end users who have problems. Trust them with your data at your peril, especially given that MUCH faster Intel/Micron drives aren't that far away.

Well the size is finally big enough to be usable now the price just needs to come down ALOT

Good step forward for SSD drives. Good size, good read/write speeds. Figure 2 or so years this drive will be at the right price to buy.

For a moment there I thought I read SATAN..

The new drives are listed for pre-order in UK at an online store. They are showing 30% higher prices size-for-size than V1 units. (32GB is £ 99.99+tax and 30GB V2 is £129.99).

That is either serious price-gouging or the price of SSDs is not going to be a steady decline.

BTW #2 they list the 250GB at £621.99+tax which would equal about $1200 + taxes as a straight dollar/sterling conversion