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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.
it doesn't matter. it's TLC and lasts only 250 overwrites. they claim it'll last 3 years (30TB of writes for the 120GB) but the average jane user, who fills up 90% of the drive (with selfies) in the first 6 months and then cornholes the remaining 10% for the next few years, will most likely suffer data loss. i'd steer clear.
this is almost as bad as the recent Sandisk z400s which only lasts 281 overwrites. shitty disposable crap.