OCZ’s new Colossus drives are among the first SSDs designed for desktops, and they’re the very first to store up to 1TB of data. Oh, and on top of all that, they work pretty well, too.
PC Perspective tested one of OCZ’s 256GB Colossus drives and found “read and write speeds are about as fast as SATA 3Gb/sec will go!” It’s nuts that our drives are finally catching up with the plentiful, SATA pipelines, even if OCZ has hacked speeds a bit by essentially building one giant drive out of four smaller SSDs.
Whatever works. Now to sell a spare kidney for the $US3300, 1TB configuration. Read the full testing results at: [PC Perspective]
Greg
Tuesday, November 24, 2009 at 12:09 PM“among the first SSDs designed for desktops”?
Huh?
Consumer grade SSDs, for use in desktops OR laptops (or anything else for that matter) have been available for years.
Many 2.5″ SSDs even ship in a kit with 3.5″ mounting brackets so its a straight swap. Common sense says this hasn’t stopped people using 2.5″ SSDs in desktops, though.