OCZ Z-Drive (1 TB, PCIe)

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mutantmagnet

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I seriously have no need for the speed performance abilities of SSD applied to 1 TB of hard drive space (120 GB tops). Yet if this thing comes out closer to the low end estimates of $1500 I'll actually purchase it instead of blowing my wad on an X-25M 160 GB.

Hmmm :eek:
 
I don't understand why they have to make it 1 TB. Couldn't they just take 4 x 30 GB drives and give us a cheap 120 GB RAID solution with the same speeds? After all, people use these SSDs for their applications and scratch disks. There is no need for 1 TB of SSD in the consumer market.
 
Cyrilix said:
I don't understand why they have to make it 1 TB. Couldn't they just take 4 x 30 GB drives and give us a cheap 120 GB RAID solution with the same speeds? After all, people use these SSDs for their applications and scratch disks. There is no need for 1 TB of SSD in the consumer market.
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says you....


size was one the reasons why i waited for the ssd market.
 
mutantmagnet said:
That can take advantage of a PCIe slot?
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Sure, just get a 4 port PCIe RAID controller (like they did) and run RAID 0 on it across 4 SSDs (like they did).

You can even rig up a method of making into a card if you want, but personally I would rather not use up that much motherboard real estate and instead mount the drives somewhere better for airflow.
 
€200-300 for the PCIe RAID controller
€200/drive
4x60gb = 340GB array which will also reach 500+mb/s read/write
= €1000

still expensive;)
 
Hopefully the will release it with a working firmware.
I think that's price is an insight at when that actually might be: Price of SSDs in 2012. :D:D
 
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