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OCZ today released the Colossus 3.5” Solid State Drive (SSD) Series, designed to meet the performance and storage demands of high-end desktop users and enterprise clients.
Available in up to one terabyte configurations, the Colossus Series marks a milestone in solid state drive technology, making it possible to have both high performance and high capacity in one solution.
“The new Colossus Series is designed to boost desktop and workstation performance and is for high power users that put a premium on speed, reliability and maximum storage capacity,” said Eugene Chang, VP of Product Management at the OCZ Technology Group. “The Colossus core-architecture is also available to enterprise clients with locked BOMs (build of materials) and customized firmware to match their unique applications.”
In addition to ample capacity, the OCZ Colossus delivers excellent performance made possible by an internal RAID 0 architecture. Excelling at small file processes during common tasks such as emailing, web browsing, and file transfer, Colossus allows for a state-of-the-art computing experience from basic to complex applications:
For enterprise applications, Colossus SSDs not only diminish performance bottlenecks suffered by mechanical hard drive infrastructures, but reduce both heat and noise and provide a more durable alternative. This translates into exceptional energy-savings and reduced maintenance costs. Furthermore, the Colossus line is built with cost-effective multi-level cell (MLC) flash to make it a viable option for enterprise clients hesitant to adopt competing products due to the higher costs.
The Colossus SSD is available in 128GB, 256GB, 512GB, and 1TB solutions to accommodate a broader spectrum of applications than current 2.5 SSD products; the 3.5″ housing is a straight drop in for many existing rack systems. The Colossus SSD series has an excellent 1.5 million hour mean time between failures (MTBF) and comes backed by a leading 3-year warranty and dedicated technical support, ensuring peace of mind over the long term. Additionally, OCZ offers unique customization options for OEM clients that may require tailored hardware and firmware solutions for their unique business.
For more information on the OCZ Colossus SSD Series, please visit our product page here.
OCZ has not released official pricing, however earlier this summer, rumour put a tag of $2,200USD for the 1TB model and $1,200USD for the 500GB.
November 18, 2009 01:19 PM
Pretty Pretty price tag..
November 18, 2009 02:09 PM
right on both counts price and size
November 18, 2009 05:02 PM
For hardware that's guaranteed to be obsolete in 10, 9, 8- Oh look! New hardware that's faster and cheaper! I wouldn't spend this much money. If you have lots of massive programs that have all sorts of large extensions you need loading quickly... you would need how much? 160, 320 GB? The rest of the space isn't going to be used as much as you might as well put the rest of your data on a seperate standard disk drive, I think.
Although it's fun to daydream about.
November 19, 2009 11:33 AM
well, the better things about the colossus (imo) are-move to desktop drive size (no need to get an adapter, or to find somewhere to velcro/ziptie/what have you-LARGE size (yes i understand the whole thing of, put the apps on the one drive, then use a standard drive for everything else, but at the same time the increased size is just mostly hinting towards the evolution of drives...maybe it might force price drops for other drives (hah, I wish but maybe) and eventually ssds might get a reasonable $/GB ratio
November 19, 2009 05:37 PM
Just wait a year or 2 and this will be down to less than a dollar per GB.