Saturday, December 10th 2011
OCZ to Introduce the Petrol SATA 6.0 Gbps Solid State Drives
Now that the Octane models are out and about, the OCZ Technology Group is preparing the launch of a second line of solid state drives based on the Indilinx Everest platform, the more value-minded Petrol series. Like the Octane SSDs, the Petrol drives feature a 2.5-inch form factor, a SATA 6.0 Gbps interface, and make use of the NDurance technology technology which increases the life span of NAND flash memory by as much as 2 times.
The Petrol models also have 2xnm asynchronous MLC (multi-level cell) NAND Flash memory (the Octane line uses synchronous MLC NAND), a MTBF of 1.25 million hours, TRIM support, and are backed by a three-year warranty.
Capacity and speed wise, the Petrol line includes the following drives:
- 64 GB | 185 MB/s max sequential read | 75 MB/s max sequential write
- 128 GB | 360 MB/s max sequential read | 135 MB/s max sequential write
- 256 GB | 370 MB/s max sequential read | 240 MB/s max sequential write
- 512 GB | 370 MB/s max sequential read | 250 MB/s max sequential write
The 64GB, 128GB, 256GB and 512GB Petrol SSDs are already popping up in store listings, and they bear price tags of about $113, $187, $396 and $803 (don't bet on these being final).
Source:
The SSD Review
The Petrol models also have 2xnm asynchronous MLC (multi-level cell) NAND Flash memory (the Octane line uses synchronous MLC NAND), a MTBF of 1.25 million hours, TRIM support, and are backed by a three-year warranty.
- 64 GB | 185 MB/s max sequential read | 75 MB/s max sequential write
- 128 GB | 360 MB/s max sequential read | 135 MB/s max sequential write
- 256 GB | 370 MB/s max sequential read | 240 MB/s max sequential write
- 512 GB | 370 MB/s max sequential read | 250 MB/s max sequential write
The 64GB, 128GB, 256GB and 512GB Petrol SSDs are already popping up in store listings, and they bear price tags of about $113, $187, $396 and $803 (don't bet on these being final).
19 Comments on OCZ to Introduce the Petrol SATA 6.0 Gbps Solid State Drives
Petrol, next up Diesel power, then NOX, then kerosine.
OCZ have just lost my brand respect. There are in a marketing and brand disarray. And, as previously posted, they have developed this "nearly the same but different" product strategy in an attempt to crowd out the retail shelf space with similar but same products that do nothing but cause confusion for the consumer. :shadedshu
-1 to OCZ
And of course, the rebranding is a marketing move and it makes sense since it's a different controller. Don't get it wrong, it's not the kind of shameful rebranding like the recent announcement of AMD's and Nvidia's "new" mobile GPUs.
OCZ did pretty well in this regard :)
Also Cristian_25H you are in a news spree I like it :D
its exhausting making sense of all the similar sounding names.
puns intended (to cause you pain, bwahahahaha)
Fuel is so god damned expensive is costs like SSDs
$1.50=litre/gigabyte.
is the cheapest you can get petrol per litre here
Prices seem kind of high for the level of performance these drives deliver.
I've been looking at SSDs lately and I've seen way better deals in terms of price/performance compared to these.
Petrol is a gas station company in my country :roll:
www.petrol.eu/