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

[Anonymous Coward]

the write limitation is a non issue for 99.999% of the computers out there.

There shouldn't be any fucking write limitations, period. With a standard mechanical drive, the same sector can be overwritten repeatedly for the entire life of the drive itself. Yet, SSD drives are here to stay because the marketplace is full of suckers like you who are so eager to bend over for something "new and better".