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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. LOL ... by gstoddart · · Score: 3, Funny

    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.

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  2. Huh? by wwalker · · Score: 3

    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.

    1. Re:Huh? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Informative

      OCZ? No thank you.

      I know that we are supposed to be all "Get off my lawn!" around here, but try to get with the name changes.
      OCZ is Toshiba these days. Thinkpad is Lenovo, Motorola changed name to Freescale and got bought by Philips that changed name to NXP.

      I bet you think car brands still mean anything too.

    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. Re:Nice ad. by sims+2 · · Score: 3, Informative

    Amazon: $69.99 http://www.amazon.com/gp/produ...

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  4. 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.

  5. 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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    2. Re:They're still doing it wrong. by flatulus · · Score: 4, Informative

      Is the reliability that bad? Looking to buy a new SSD, and reliability and cost are my top concerns.

      OCZ had a bad spell a few years ago and were the "king of unreliability". My employer deployed Vertex2 drives. We had a few field failures, but not really all that many. But the brand got blasted in user reports and reviews - one article rated it the most unreliable SSD, head and shoulders above (below?) all others.

      IIRC, OCZ went bankrupt and was purchased by Toshiba. They (Toshiba) chose to keep the OCZ brand (putting it on a 12-step plan) rather than using their own name on consumer products (like how Crucial is actually Micron, but they keep the names separate).

      So I wouldn't necessarily hold the "new" OCZ responsible for the "old" OCZ's missteps.