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OCZ Toshiba Breaks 30 Cents Per GB Barrier With New Trion 150 SSD (hothardware.com)

Posted by timothy on from the please-keep-racing-to-the-bottom dept.

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.

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  1. Re:Ummmm by moosehooey · · Score: 4, Insightful

    They decided to continue to use the same trademark. They get the bad publicity along with the good.

  2. Re:Huh? by The-Ixian · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Yeah, honestly, if they had just rebranded to Toshiba and dropped OCZ completely, I would never have dug any further and just assumed that the venerable Toshiba hard drive division was making a push into the SSD market.

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  3. They're still doing it wrong. by Joce640k · · Score: 4, Insightful

    "increased performance and lower cost"

    I'd settle for "same performance, same cost, improved reliability".

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    1. Re:They're still doing it wrong. by jandrese · · Score: 4, Insightful

      You can get that by switching from OCZ to virtually any other brand.

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