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OCZ Toshiba Breaks 30 Cents Per GB Barrier With New Trion 150 SSD (hothardware.com)
MojoKid writes: OCZ's Trion 150 SSD is an update to the company's Trion 100, which was the first drive from OCZ to feature TLC NAND and all in-house, Toshiba-built technology. As its branding suggests, the new Trion 150 kicks things up a notch over the Trion 100, thanks to some cutting-edge Toshiba 15nm NAND flash memory and a tweaked firmware, that combined, offer increased performance and lower cost over its predecessor. In testing, the Trion 150 hits peak reads and writes well north of 500MB/sec like most SATA-based SSDs but the kicker is, at its higher densities, the drive weighs in at about 28 cents per GiB. This equates to street prices of $70 for a 240GB drive, $140 for 480GB and $270 for a 960GB version. It's good to see mainstream solid state storage costs continuing to come down.
Show me a place where you can buy the 240gb version for $70.
What does that equate to in grams?
Wow, I once spent over $600 for 16MB of RAM for a PC. And that was considered a good deal.
You kids today have no idea how jarring it is to see a 16GB memory stick as a prize in a Cracker Jack box or in the express checkout at a convenience store.
Imagine my surprise to now see 2TB drives for under $100.
No go on with your fancy cheap memory ... back in my day we had steam powered memory made out of iron rings ... luxury, we used to dream of 30 cent gigabytes (no, really, we did).
If my lawn had grown proportional to storage over the last few decades, I'd have a lawn the size of Jupiter or something stupid, and wouldn't know to tell you to get off it in the first place.
Lost at C:>. Found at C.
That's the only barrier to my purchase...
My "disable ads" check-box isn't working again.
OCZ? No thank you.
Breaks 30 cents per GB? Ha-ha. You could get Samsung Evo 1Tb for around $290 for a few weeks now.
Price is amazing, too bad, I still have bad taste in my mouth from all the returns on my first SSD from them.
7 times replaced, I spent more money on transport fees than the cost of just buying someone else's reliable drive.
I know they have since been sold to Toshiba. But I was not offered a fix for my bad drive still. And lets face it, the first series were bloody expensive.
I will be waiting for the others to catch up.
It weighs about 51 grams.
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In the early 80s a friend had his business run on an HP mini-something. At his house I saw the whopping 5MB disk drive the size of a very large 78 LP record player cabinet (you'ld have to remember the early 50s.) I only recall he said it cost over $10,000.
The barrier the broke is boring as I have purchased better brands for the same price or less recently.
They broke the OCZ barrier, Crucial has been there for a while.
http://www.amazon.com/Crucial-...
OCZ is way behind the price points of pretty much all the big boys.
Do not look at laser with remaining good eye.
Thanks for the ad, timothy.
I thought the 'new bosses' were going to get rid of this kind of garbage.
Which is around $30,000 in today's dollars.
But it's already cheaper on aliexpress.
The price is great and very tempting! But, I just can;t trust my data to OCZ. I just can't do it.
I've seen drives on PC Parts Picker for around 25 cents per gigabyte. They might not be the latest and greatest or have the most storage capacity, but they exist.
You had me at "OCZ Toshiba Breaks"
"You're right," Fisheye says. "I should have set it on 'whip' or 'chop.'"
That brand is dead to me. I had issue after issue with the Vertex II and RMA'd that thing at least 3 times. The last time, I didn't even take the new one they sent me out of the box, I just threw it in a drawer.
I know, things change... but I am happy with my Samsung SSDs.
My eyes reflect the stars and a smile lights up my face.
They're firmly on my 'avoid like the plague' list. Has their being bought by Toshiba resulted in any improvement?
the smallest drives i had were 20mb from some 286's i acquired.
"increased performance and lower cost"
I'd settle for "same performance, same cost, improved reliability".
No sig today...
hmm....The 960GB Sandisk Ultra II in the PC under my desk was $220 when I bought it 4 months ago. Today, $250 at Newegg.
This price point is revolutionary news because why?
Add in the fact that there are a limited number of writes and these overpriced drives are not that useful
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Oh come on, we all loved (or craved) it while running Fractint, and prior to that we knew what they were for after seeing AutoCADs "remove hidden lines" feature on a math co-pro system!
I hope I didn't brain my damage.
I actually thought the response was funnier.
Ah, Fractint....I'd forgotten all about that. :)
What a blast we had with that. It still took forever to render a zoom, but exploring the Mandelbrot was one of the cool things you could do with a PC back then.
Just cruising through this digital world at 33 1/3 rpm...
old news
Now consider the cost of upgrading from a 16GB smart phone to a 32GB version of the same model, and how much they'll charge you for the privilege.
My math skills may be rusty in some areas, but isn't 240GB ÷ $70 = 34 cents per gigabyte?
Still have the 40MB SCSI-1 drive in the Mac LC. Amazingly it still works. Everything before that was floppies, many of those no longer work.
I read the internet for the articles.
Am I getting grumpy in my old age or are other people sick of every incremental improvement being touted as breaking some barrier or other?
It's not like $.30/GB is some special number, like the speed of light or the speed of sound. People weren't wandering around saying "30 cents a GB? It'll never happen, the fundamental physics just won't allow it. Violate it and your lungs will explode." It isn't as if there's some asymptote or limit as you approach 30 cents/GB.
How about we just state "this SSD trimmed 0.2 cents/GB, from 30.1 to 29.9." Yes, I know, because marketing.
So the rumours go anyhow, it was at CES.
That's only 3.5x more expensive than I need it to be, for me to seriously consider moving to SSDs in my FreeNAS machine.
(HDD's are awkwardly hot, noisy, power greedy, when you run 6 of them and have an unfortunately exceptionally good set of ears)
Regardless, I do believe that thrashes the OCZ drive in this article. Although it's so strangely cheap, one must wonder if it wasn't a mistake or there's something NQR about it.
OCZ drives are pure garbage. They are the least reliable brand in the market and rarely last longer than 9 months.
Do you have a link about this story? I Googled a bit, but I get nothing that sounds like a major scandal.
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Why is this a barrier? Is it much harder to pass 30 cents/GB than it is to pass 30.01 or 29.99 cents/GB? Or is it only a barrier to people who believe that round numbers are more profound than other numbers?
Sandisk has an mlc based SSD of an identical $/capacity price point. The title is a bit misleading as it implies OCZ is somehow the first flash manufacturer to do this.
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