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Aussie IT Pricing Inquiry Now Taking Submissions The external SATA standard is still a comparatively rare and inconsistent one, but OCZ has designed the Throttle, an eSATA flash drive with a clever compatibility trick up its slee—err, cap.
If we looked between the couch cushions, we could probably find 20GB or so in various roaming flash media. Yet it all goes unused whenever we pull out the trusty USB stick.
OCZ’s new Core Series SSD’s are designed to be large and affordable. So the new 2.5-inch SATA II flash drives are coming in 128GB, 64GB and 32GB sizes at US$479, US$259 and US$169 respectively. They don’t match up to the 200Mbps read speeds Samsung has promised–managing 135Mbs– but that price point is pretty low. And while they’re too big to drop into the smallest laptops (MacBook Air owners will weep), they might be just the ticket for people looking to cheaply upgrade to SSD–OCZ claim ten times faster than their HDDs and half the power. Available “soon.” Press release below.
