Daddy WANT

[Lemur]

New SSD drive has 1 terabyte capacity. Ooooooooooh. Shiny.

I needs it. I wants it. My precious.

If the Org loved me, you would take up a collection to get me one.

[Tellos Athenaios]

What's with that article? First they slip per GB prices of $1,- to $1,30; then they claim that there's no word on price? Surely that works out as $1000,- to $1300,- for 1TB?

Also I think you need to work on your money soliciting skills: confusing off-target messages don't bring in much cash. (Which is it, the iPod or the SSD?)

[Furunculus]

i like my 128GB SSD as a system drive, for nothing but the OS and drivers, and it will have to stay that way until i can get a 512GB drive for games at less than half the £300 cost i paid for my original drive.

[Risasi]

I'm a data minimalist. I do not have nor do I want that much stuff...


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EDIT: P.S. Tonight I just changed out the HDD in my Macbook Pro, for a 120GB SSD from Other World Computing. I inherited it from a co-worker. Pretty slick. This is a definite "worth doing" upgrade. I have an unexplained slow boot time, but it's real snappy once I'm in the GUI.

My old drive was nearly three times the size of this SSD, but I'm only using about 30GB for OS, apps, another 40GB in movies. Then I had about 40GB in a bootcamp Windows partition. I'm going to have to rethink some of my storage I think.

[Alexander the Pretty Good]

I thought the OCZ SSDs were garbage.

[naut]

I thought the OCZ SSDs were garbage.

lol

Still probably cheaper/better to get two smaller in raid.

[Lemur]

I thought the OCZ SSDs were garbage.

Dunno where you got that impression. Those dope-smoking hippies at Anandtech seem to like them plenty.

When connected to a good 6Gbps controller, the Vertex 3 Pro is significantly faster than anything else on the market today. Obviously the V3P itself is an unreleased drive so things could change as its competitors show up as well, but the bar has been set very high. The Vertex 3 Pro is the first SSD to really put 6Gbps SATA to good use. In fact I'd say its the first drive that really needs a 6Gbps interface. Whenever you Sandy Bridge owners get replacement motherboards, this may be the SSD you'll want to pair with them.

Even writing incompressible data the Vertex 3 Pro is faster than current SandForce drives running full tilt. The performance gains we see here are generational, not a simple evolutionary improvement. SandForce has also successfully addressed the limited shortcomings of the original SF-1200 controller with regards to writing incompressible data.

Clearly performance isn't going to be a problem with this generation. The real unknowns are how well will the Vertex 3 (non-Pro) perform and how reliable will these drives be? Intel is still king of the hill when it comes to drive reliability, however OCZ has been investing heavily in improving its manufacturing. I suspect that this next SSD war will be fought both along performance and reliability lines. Unfortunately for us, the latter is very difficult to quantify without a significant sample of drives.

With new controllers from SandForce, Intel and Marvell due out this year we're going to see SSD performance go through the roof and SSD prices to continue to fall. We're still a couple months away from knowing exactly what to buy, but if you've been putting off that move to an SSD - 2011 may be the year to finally pull the trigger.

[Alexander the Pretty Good]

Must've been their earlier gen offerings.

[Furunculus]

anandtech is a solid site, nearly tempted me away from choosing a Crucial C300 128GB as a result of their crush on the Gen1 OCZ sandforce drives.

[Beskar]

OCZ does have a bit of a reputation on being on the more "cheap and nasty" scale of things in reliability, which is probably why it isn't getting as much love as it should, if it is as good as the claims says it is.