OCZ Toshiba Breaks 40 Cent Per GB Barrier With New Trion 100 Series SSD

MojoKid writes: OCZ is launching a brand new series of solid state drives today, dubbed the Trion 100. Not only are they the first drives from the company to use TLC NAND, but they're also the first to use all in-house Toshiba technology with the drive's Flash memory and controller both designed and built by Toshiba. That controller is paired to A19nm Toshiba TLC NAND Flash memory and a Nanya DDR3 DRAM cache. Details are scarce on the Toshiba TC58 controller but it does support Toshiba's QSBC (Quadruple Swing-By Correction — a Toshiba proprietary error correction technology) and the drives have a bit of SLC cache to boost write performance in bursts and increase endurance. The OCZ Trion 100 series is targeted at budget conscious consumers and users still contemplating the upgrade from a standard hard drive. As such, they're not barn-burners in the benchmarking department, but performance is still good overall and a huge upgrade over any HDD. Pricing is going to be very competitive as well, at under .40 per GiB for capacities of 240GB, 480GB and 960GB and .50 per GiB for the smallest 120GB drive.

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Re:Still don't trust SSDs

[PhunkySchtuff]

Yep. I'll happily take 10x the number of IOPS and limited writes (that are in most cases many years of regular service) over "infinite" writes and moving parts. I wouldn't want to keep spinning rust in service more than 3-5 years tops, and if all the SSDs I've used will survive this long, why should I use the slower solution?

Re:Still don't trust SSDs

[hairyfeet]

Interesting? For a "works for me!" anecdote? Really mods, DaFuq? What is your experience with SSDs, 1? 2 maybe?

Well I have to have dealt with hundreds in the last couple years at the shop and its pretty damned obvious they still haven't fixed the driver controllers as they are still a complete and total CRAPSHOOT. Get a good one? Congrats you will get to write several times what the drive is rated for, you lucky dog! Get a bad one? Well I hope you didn't want that data because you will just flip the switch and the drive will be gone with zero warning, it won't even show up in BIOS/UEFI and the you will NEVER EVER get that data back!

Say what you will about spinning rust but I haven't had a single drive fail that didn't give SOME kind of warning before dying, be it delayed write failures, be it SMART, at least you got some kind of warning...SSDs? Fuck you, no warning. And has ANYBODY here had one actually fail into "read only" as the manufacturers use to tout? Anybody? Because I have yet to see that happen even once, instead the controller goes and your memories are gone FOR-EV-ER. Again at least with spinning rust you can grab another of the same model and build a clean box and do a platter swap, has anybody here actually been able to recover data from a failed SSD? I bet we won't find a single person.

So do I avoid SSDs? Nope have 'em in both my office box and my gamer box at home....as OS drives ONLY, why? Because I don't give a single fuck if I lose the OS, that's why! But all these people putting SSDs into laptops which they put all their pics and docs on? Well I just hope you have daily backups to the cloud, because the first time you flip that switch and find all your pics, including those of some now deceased relative you can never replace, is gone for good? Yeah I bet you won't be singing the praises of consumer SSDs anymore!