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

[thegarbz]

And yet many other people have no problems running SSDs some people still using their originals.

Whenever I see someone say "had to replace them all" I can only think of device incompatibilities engineering screwups, or part selection screw-ups.

In short, there is no reliability issue, and the write limitation is a non issue for 99.999% of the computers out there. It just doesn't seem to be working for *you*

Re:Still don't trust SSDs

[Rockoon]

Toshiba invented flash memory. I am hopeful that they do something decent with the OCZ brand.

Re:Still don't trust SSDs

[cHiphead]

That sounds like a vendor issue using cheap SSD components, not a fault of SSDs in general.

Samsung 840 EVOs are certainly a nightmare, everyone one I deployed has needed be replaced. Samsung 830 Pro and 840 Pros I have deployed are still running. Enterprise SSDs are the real place you should be looking for reliable performance over time.