The PC Report

The Solid State Drive market is really flourishing these days, and while it’s not cheaper than conventional hard drives, they still provide the best speed. Joining this market in mid-August is OCZ’s (best known for their RAM) Colossus SSD range, going from the 128GB drive way up to 1TB

Today OCZ said that the release is about three weeks off, and the official pricing for the drives is as follows: 128GB – $300, 256GB – $650, 512GB – $1,200 and the 1TB drive comes in at a whopping $2,200. Hopefully closer to the release date we can get our hands on some of these drives and performance benchmark them, otherwise we really don’t have an idea abouthow fast they are.

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We have been seeing a lot of solid state drive news over the past week, and we now have some more with Intel releasing two new 34nm drives. The drives, available in 80GB and 160GB, will be named the same as previous Intel SSDs: the X18-M for a 1.8″ drive and the X25-M for the 2.5″ drive iteration.

There are two benefits to 34nm SSDs – one is that they’re faster and the other is that they’re cheaper. These new SSDs can read at 250 MB/s but write speeds are still at 100 MB/s, but Intel noted that “while many specs have been improved, we do not expect any noticeable gains on application-based benchmarks.” Oh well, at least the drives are cheaper, with the 80GB coming in at US$225 and the 160GB at US$440; down almost US$300 from the 50nm models

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Lexar today has released 3 new SSDs after a long wait to join it’s Crucial lineup. These new solid state drives, available in 64GB, 128GB and 256GB, can read at up to 250 MB/s and write at up to 200 MB/s thanks to it’s MLC NAND flash memory. Unfortunately the 2.5″ M225 drives are still slower than OCZs Vertex Turbo SSDs, but not by much. Pricing has been released, and is as follows: US$169 for the 64GB, US$329 for the 128GB and US$599 for the 256GB.

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Corsair, well known for its RAM modules, has released some new super-fast SSDs dubbed the “Extreme” series. The series comprises of 3 SSDs – the X32, X64 and X128 in 32GB, 64GB and 128GB respectively. Using Samsung MLC NAND memory modules and a Indilinx Barefoot controller, this SSD can apparently reach speeds of up to 240 MBps reading and 170 MBps writing. Corsair also said that the drives will be upgradeable by future firmware updates. No word yet on pricing and availability.

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