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OCZ's Octane SSD - 1TB in a Consumer Drive
- laluser 15y agoAlthough I realize the difference, I found an article from 4 years ago (2007) where Hitachi released a 1 TB hard drive aimed for consumers (there were others at the time as well): http://www.pcworld.com/article/128400/hitachi_introduces_1terabyte_hard_drive.html http://www.pcworld.com/article/128400/hitachi_introduces_1te... . Definitely an interesting read as it provides some context at the state of data relative to 2007.
- randallsquared 15y agoYah, but of course it's the SSD part of this that makes it interesting now.
- laluser 15y agoYes. My point was to juxtapose the release cycle of hard drives back then to SSDs now. Poor attempt, I know.
- sjwright 15y agoNo, it wasn't a poor attempt. The grandparent failed to read your post. Thank you for the interesting link; it adds an interesting dimension to the announcement.
- joenathan 15y agoYour grandparent but his child. :)
- randallsquared 15y agoIt wasn't the quality of the comment, but the fact that laluser said nothing about SSD, so I wasn't sure if that detail had been missed.
- fletchowns 15y agoSo does this mean that on August 4th, 2016, I will be able to buy a 1TB SSD drive for less than $260?
- dbbo 15y agoOCZ's stock went up over 20% on Thursday: http://finance.yahoo.com/q/bc?s=OCZ&t=5d&l=off&z=l&q=c&c= http://finance.yahoo.com/q/bc?s=OCZ&t=5d&l=off&z...
- sciurus 15y agoIt's interesting that they've bought Indilinx. OCZ has been Sandforce's most visible customer for a while. 1TB for $1,300 is a good price. The 600GB Intel SSD's that we've been purchasing at work only cost $200 less.
- ezy 15y agoNow if only they could get their drives to last longer than a year on average. :-)
- kayoone 15y agoi have a total of 3 SSDs bought in 2009 (2x SuperTalent Ultradrive, 1x Intel X25-M), all still running fine and used heavily each day. Knock on wood :)
- nchlswu 15y agoI was going to bring this up. I don't follow the hardware scene at all unless I'm buying parts. I bought a fairly cheap OCZ SSD, but they don't have quite the best reputation (anecdotal evidence). I've read stories about SSDs not lasting long in general, but OCZ seems to have a fairly poor track record among that and an even poorer customer service record. One story I caught was the change of manufacturing for one of their lines of SSDs which affected performance and presumably cut costs without notifying consumers of the change. I wonder how the acquisition of a controller company will affect their 'power' so to speak.
- jhack 15y agoGetting closer to breaking that $1/GB barrier. Looking forward to seeing if reliably has improved any (buddy of mine has that random bsod issue with his OCZ SSD).
- biot 15y agoI remember when hard drives finally broke the $10/MB barrier. :)