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News OCZ announces Octane 1TB SSD

Discussion in 'Article Discussion' started by brumgrunt, 3 May 2012.

  1. brumgrunt

    brumgrunt What's a Dremel?

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  2. scott_chegg

    scott_chegg Minimodder

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    Wonder how many people will be buying 2 and RAID 0'ing them? Not many me thinks.
     
  3. lilgoth89

    lilgoth89 Captin Calliope

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    not at that price...makes it terrible value considering the recent price crash of the smaller SSDs
     
  4. Vo0Ds

    Vo0Ds Fake potato

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    Not expecting a review then...
     
  5. liratheal

    liratheal Sharing is Caring

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    Ahahahahah.

    £1900?

    No, sir, no.

    People ask why I don't use SSD's - This is why.

    I do not fancy a.. £27500 bill for making everything, for all intents and purposes "A bit" faster.
     
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    p3n What's a Dremel?

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    SSDs are massively quicker...
     
  7. Guinevere

    Guinevere Mega Mom

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    But if he's talking about 14TB worth of 'average BT user data' storage it's unlikely moving from mechanical drives to SSDs will make accessing said data anything more than 'A bit' faster. But of course it all depends on the gear and what use.

    If he's streaming 1080p videos then he'll be fine with mechanicals as it's the network that's the issue.

    If he's hosting a 5TB SQL Server database on local storage then those SSDs will suit the job nicely.

    Horses for courses.

    Edit: I currently have a 120GB SSD and a 1TB spinner in my MBP, I'd love to rip them both out and install a couple of these. But not at that cost...
     
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    cookie! nom nom Minimodder

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    me think geting lodes of 120gb ssd (£80) and putting them in raid would be better XD
     
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    Might get one of these for my netbook.
     
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    M_D_K Modder

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    How have you got 2 Drives in your MBP?
     
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    ev1lm1nd666 What's a Dremel?

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    Give it two or three years and these things will be a couple of hundred quid...
     
  12. RedFlames

    RedFlames ...is not a Belgian football team

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    replaced the optical drive with one?
     
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    schmidtbag What's a Dremel?

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    I've seen SSDs from 1 or 2 years ago with this capacity and are multiple times faster for a more competitive price. These SSDs are PCI-e 16x based, so it is unlikely anyone would want to use something like that in their gaming computer (because that extra slot could be better used for another GPU) but I expect better from OCZ.
     
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    http://www.mcetech.com/optibay/ ← probably
     
  15. Elton

    Elton Officially a Whisky Nerd

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    The weird thing is, the pricing doesn't seem to scale well. It's about 15x more money for less than 10x more space.
     
  16. Harlequin

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    people buying the gtx 690 would get 2 of these i bet ;)
     
  17. [PUNK] crompers

    [PUNK] crompers Dremedial

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    my mate bought one of these and i remember the price being pretty ridiculous. seems even third party mac stuff gets a premium shoved on it
     
  18. RichCreedy

    RichCreedy Hey What Who

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    i'll take two to put in my laptop
     
  19. Madness_3d

    Madness_3d Bit-Tech/Asus OC Winner

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    Costs more to put vastly more data into the same space. The fact it exists alone means that they should eventually become affordable, give it 2-5 years and providing there isn't a better alternative beating out SSD's these will become commonplace in these sizes :)
     
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    Likely because it wasn't trivial to shove that much capacity into a 2.5" drive. Yes, there have been other 1TB SSDs, as the article itself points out, but this is the first 2.5". You want bleeding edge, you'll always pay a premium.

    Personally, I'd appreciate a move to PCIe SSDs for consumer-level hardware. PCIe 3.0 supports a data rate of 15.8 GB/s on a x16 link. Make it bootable, TRIM support behind the hardware RAID on the card - hell yes. Granted, currently they don't typically use a full x16; x4 is more common, iirc. I'd give up 16 lanes for that, not that I'll be able to afford it until it comes down to $100 :p
     
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