Wednesday, March 10th 2010
OCZ Technology Makes Solid State Storage Affordable with Onyx SSDs
OCZ Technology Group, Inc., a worldwide leader in innovative, ultra-high performance and high reliability memory and flash-based storage as an alternative to hard disk drives (HDDs), today unveiled the OCZ Onyx SATA II 2.5" Solid State Drive (SSD) Series, an ultra-affordable MultiLevel Cell (MLC)-based solid state storage solution designed for consumers looking to take advantage of flash-based storage technology. Offering a faster and more durable alternative to traditional hard drives in a cost-efficient SSD, the Onyx delivers reliable performance without the high price normally associated with SSD drives.
"As new technologies become available, OCZ continues to expand both our enterprise and consumer SSD lines, and one of our goals is to make SSDs more affordable to end-users. Our new Onyx series SSD does exactly that and is a perfect solution for netbooks, laptops, or home desktop PCs," commented Ryan Petersen, CEO of the OCZ Technology Group. "Designed to offer the best of both worlds, the new OCZ Onyx SSD delivers the speed and reliability of solid state storage to mainstream consumers at an aggressive price point that makes the technology more accessible to customers who want to take advantage of all the benefits of the SSDs without incurring the high cost normally associated with the solution."
With a sub 100 dollar MRSP the aggressively priced Onyx 32GB SSD delivers an enhanced computing experience with faster application loading, snappier data access, shorter boot-ups, and longer battery life. Onyx SSDs feature HDD-dominating access times, up to 125MB/s read and 70MB/s write speeds, 64MB of onboard cache, and unique performance optimization to keep the drives at peak performance over the long term.
OCZ Onyx SSD drives feature a durable yet lightweight housing, and because OCZ SSDs have no moving parts, the drives are more rugged than conventional hard drives. Available first in 32GB capacity the Onyx state drives are ideal for use as a boot up drive or for mobile PCs and Netbooks as a quality hard drive replacement. Designed for ultimate reliability, Onyx SSDs have an excellent 1.5 million hour mean time between failure (MTBF), and OCZ also offers a leading 3-year warranty and award-winning technical support with the series, making SSDs a more viable upgrade for users requiring ultimate levels of customer service.
"As new technologies become available, OCZ continues to expand both our enterprise and consumer SSD lines, and one of our goals is to make SSDs more affordable to end-users. Our new Onyx series SSD does exactly that and is a perfect solution for netbooks, laptops, or home desktop PCs," commented Ryan Petersen, CEO of the OCZ Technology Group. "Designed to offer the best of both worlds, the new OCZ Onyx SSD delivers the speed and reliability of solid state storage to mainstream consumers at an aggressive price point that makes the technology more accessible to customers who want to take advantage of all the benefits of the SSDs without incurring the high cost normally associated with the solution."
OCZ Onyx SSD drives feature a durable yet lightweight housing, and because OCZ SSDs have no moving parts, the drives are more rugged than conventional hard drives. Available first in 32GB capacity the Onyx state drives are ideal for use as a boot up drive or for mobile PCs and Netbooks as a quality hard drive replacement. Designed for ultimate reliability, Onyx SSDs have an excellent 1.5 million hour mean time between failure (MTBF), and OCZ also offers a leading 3-year warranty and award-winning technical support with the series, making SSDs a more viable upgrade for users requiring ultimate levels of customer service.
52 Comments on OCZ Technology Makes Solid State Storage Affordable with Onyx SSDs
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That is still a high price per GB compared to basically the only other product in that function. Saying something is cheap at the same price because you put 0.032 as much in the package???
Yes I also have issues with the "instant on" labeled computers. Even 5 seconds isn't an instant, sub 1 second I could understand being labeled instant due to some time for the monitor to show an image and power supplies to stabilize. They need to have the MRAM or something similiar for that type to really work.
Seriously though. 'Cheap' and 'instant on' are made in comparison to what's currently on the market. It's not made to be interpreted literally. Plus 'cheap' has no concrete definition.
I'm interested in seeing how this performs. I've always thought that even a 'slow' (and therefore cheap) SSD will still be a much better option than a HDD.
It's just silicon, copper and a gram of gold somewhere.
silicon and copper and a gram of gold shouldn't cost $700(referring to th 256gb SSDs.)
Yeah, I know the process and it being a new tech factors a lot in it, but $700 for 256GB is just absurd.
But the cost of the raw flash is coming down by about 50% per year and increasing in capacity at about the same rate. This is why I expect SSDs to be a truly good buy as far as cost per GB in 2011 or more likely, 2012.
The price will go down. It's only a matter of time.
stick in a mech HDD for backup and storage and dvd on your last port and you've got yourself a speedy system.
just not a particularly good value for money one!
Wy not just by this one it is much faster and under 100$
Consider, here are some average install sizes:
Windows 7 64-bit - 20GB minimum required; 10 GB w/o hibernation and major tweaks
Battlefield: Bad Company 2 - 6.08 GB
Borderlands - 7.03 GB
World of Warcraft - 12 GB average
I look at those numbers and you can get the OS, maybe one or two games, and that's it before you start impacting performance due to swap file. Is that worth $100 when for the same I can get a 1TB drive on sale that while may not be as fast sure will store a LOT more?
When 128GB SSD's stop getting made from Leprechaun gold and can be afforded by mortals THEN I'll start to get excited. Otherwise I refuse to give money to some executive somewhere, or promote the enslavement of Leprechaun's, so he can buy a Ferrari or Porsche just to get faster boot times. :nutkick: