COMPUTEX — Solid-state drive makers usually confine themselves to the 2.5" form factor, since those drives can slip comfortably into netbooks, notebooks, or full-fledged desktops. So does OCZ—usually. At Computex, we got a peek at the firm’s upcoming Colossus solid-state drive, which has a 3.5" form factor and a massive 1TB capacity.
OCZ told us the drive works in a RAID-0 configuration internally. That allows it to reach top sustained speeds of 265MB/s for both reads and writes. (The display label under the drive only says 250MB/s, though, somehow.) OCZ uses a JMicron RAID controller and a pair of Indilinx controllers hooked up to the flash.
As you’d expect, this thing won’t be cheap. OCZ intends to price the 1TB drive in the $2,500-3,000 range, although a cheaper 500GB variant will also be available.
On an unrelated note, OCZ was also showing off a prototype home-theater PC in its hotel suite:
This machine should feature an Nvidia Ion integrated graphics chipset and a Blu-ray drive. OCZ quoted a $300 price tag, although we didn’t get a clear response on whether that price includes Blu-ray or not. Either way, the final product will probably have a different look.
Transporter 3 FTW! …and it sucked thanks to her…
Yea I think so also. The could have picked someone else. Shes like a ok but ah not there actress.
Come back to my hotel room and I’ll show you my….HTPC.
But seriously, was the Ion paired with a single or dual core Atom?
Is there any alternative to JMicron? Silicon Image IIRC, and .. uh ..
Transporter 3 is a pile of dung.
Loljmicroncough
Bit of a reverse halo effect going on here, I guess?
Since when are Jmicron’s RAID controllers particularly bad? Are new now judging their RAID controllers based on their poor SSD controllers, even though Jmicron has been a primary supplier of on-board RAID chips long before they ever entered the SSD market?
better not bad talk it, all the OCZ forum members might show up again
Id be very surprised if $300 buys you a blu-ray HTPC. Most likely a DVD drive in the basic option. Although we can all hope.
You can buy a blueray drive for $80. What makes you think $300 blueray HTPC is not possible especially a bundle?
Well that leaves $220 for everything else. It might be possible if they sell at as a barebones system without HDD or OS but i cant see that being too popular.
You do not live at a country that people uses pirate OS at 89% of computers.
Maybe he does not but if OCZ only sells it with an OS installed that wouldn’t make a difference.
Without OS is probably a goot bet (despite my other post – Cyril should find out about the OS) doesn’t OCZ have DIY notebooks without OS? *Yup I checked, it is indeed OCZ.
If the $300 includes Blu-Ray, it’ll sell like hot cakes.
The hot cake business ain’t doing so welll[
please see: PS3. 🙂
… Which woulda sold twice as many units, at least, if it had been priced at $300.
No kidding. I’ve been ready to buy a PS3 at $300 for about a year now. What is Sony thinking? They must be satisfied with their current market share.
and would have lost sony twice as much money, at least, if it had been priced at $300.
With a higher installed base, they would have sold a lot more games, which is where the real money is.
Very fine point, good sir!
Except that Sony had other issues on its agenda, most significantly winning the format war with HD-DVD. They were willing to lose a lot to win that; presumably by their calculations the payoff in royalties (on both media and players) would make up for the lost revenue due to lost marketshare (at least initially) in gaming. And — faced with just the Xbox — they probably would have been right… if not for the Wii coming along to pull the rug out from under their assumptions.
I must be missing something, because I don’t see a $300 ps3. I do see a $200 xbox 360 though 😉