OCZ Octane SSD

The World's First 2.5-Inch 1TB SSD Needs to Get In My Laptop's Belly Like Now
Well the price is great and the controller is not Sandforce. Seems like a good deal to me. I mean 288$ for 240gb is great and they are offering 1tb at 1100$, well it will be stupid but the price is still great

 

I want one ! but for $500

 

Uhm, the controller is not SF, but it is an OCZ product along with 'insane' claims (okay, not 'insane' just 'bold' claims) just like SF does.

Looks like a pass to me at this point.

 

Well am not really concerned about speed but hopefully its reliable. The price is just great. Know that OCZ don't really have a great history but still hoping the reliability is good, might just get it (am gonna wait for some time for feedback from early adopters)

 

Since the drive isn't Sandforce based, I would very much consider getting this. I just pulled the optical drive from my system and put my WD Scorpio Black into a caddy, waiting for a good deal to come along on a 120 GB SSD. The $156 price point for the Octane is certainly appealing.

 

Why is that stupid? I'm looking forward to reviews on this one, especially the 1Tb. On my main desktop at home I'm trying to get >3Tb between two SATA ports and a single available PCI-E slot for a reasonable amount. 4Tb with decent performance and an all-up price of ~$5.5K including a decent HBA will be fantastic, as would being able to deck my main Elitebooks out with the drive.

Still, it won't be an immediate purchase even if the reviews are rave - I'll wait for what others are bringing to the table within a few months, as well as wait out any teething issues. I've learned not to be a guinea pig for storage.

 

It's not the first.... I hate those stupid claims. There are already 1tb and more 2.5 SSD's. Enterprise market of course, and with insane pricetags.
Anyway it is NOT the first.

http://www.hpcwire.com/hpcwire/2010-07-26/largest_ssd_with_2_tb_capacity_shipped_by_foremay.html
July 26, 2010
PASADENA, Calif., July 26 -- Foremay, Inc., a leader of technology innovations in solid state drives and one of the world's Top 5 SSD OEMs, today announced the world's largest solid state drive with capacities up to 2 TB for 3.5" SATA and 1 TB for 2.5" SATA form factors. The EC188 M-series model-V has read/write speeds up to 200 MB/s and has a design optimized for RAID configurations. Together with up to 24-bit built-in ECC for enhanced data integrity and reliability, the jumbo capacity EC188 M-series model-V is optimized for enterprise servers and workstations.

 

This would be why OCZ bought Indilinx. They are tired of the Sandforce crap methinks. Too bad OCZ has some of the worst reputation for claims in products (not just SSDs mind you) and probably the worst customer support ever. Still, there is some hope here, and the pricing is solid. Time will tell just how good or not it is.

 

Well I mean in my mind it makes no sense to spend 1k$ on a SSD as the performance gains are not that phenomenal to justify spending 1k$. But it is nice that OCZ are offering 1tb at prices that others offer 512gb for

 

I don't know is it me or does a 1TB SSD just seem like more trouble than it's worth? I mean, perhaps it's just me but I don't really see myself using more than a 512gb...

 

I could see myself using this 1TB SSD with those speeds (assuming that they are the same for compressible/uncompressible files) and it was strictly one of my PS's Scratch Disks (ie: not a system critical drive...).

Of, course, I would only be using 512GB of it (or even less) - to ensure that it will continue to perform as it did from day one of use.

 

who wants to be the first to RAID these drive

 

Lmao you are a well informed giant among men

Real question I have for you is when do you think the rest of this SSD companies will catch-up to this? I thought the Samsung 830 was a beast of a release but now I'm thinking that this drive will win big with business companies really quickly.