Storage Solutions OCZ Reveals Solid-State Drive with Sub-$100 Price

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OCZ Reveals Solid-State Drive with Sub-$100 Price.​

OCZ Intros Onyx Family of SSDs​

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OCZ Technology Group, a leading supplier of DRAM and flash-based products, has launched its first value solid-state drive (SSD) at sub-$100 price-point. The flash-based storage device can boast with relatively high performance along with Trim command and is designed to speed up boot-time of Windows 7-based personal computers (PCs).

The first OCZ Onyx solid-state drive has 32GB capacity and 64MB onboard cache. The SSD sports up to 125MB/s read speed, up to 70MB/s write speed and Trim command to optimize performance of the drive. OCZ declares 0.1ms seek time as well as 1.5 million hours meantime before failure time for its new cost-effective product. The company claims that its Onyx 32GB will cost less than $100 and will be aimed at cost-conscious buyers.

“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. 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,†said Ryan Petersen, chief executive officer of the OCZ Technology Group.

OCZ Onyx is not the first low-cost SSD designed to boost performance of modern personal computers and only meant to carry operating system along with a couple of crucial programs. Late last year Kingston Technology already offered a very inexpensive SSD, but that model lacked cache, Trim feature and cost over $100.

It is crucial for OCZ Technology Group to become a well-known and respected supplier of SSD. The potential of solid-state drives is very high and it is important to become a respected provider of appropriate products, something that OCZ has already done on the market of high-end memory modules.
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yes it sucks but at least its "sub $100" price (good marketing) will help to raise awareness among regular users resulting in more sales and lower prices for the real stuff :D
 
Let there be light and there was light .

Let the revolution begin or else SSD will never penetrate mainstream market.

At least OCZ had the balls to release a sub $100 SSD . I don't think anyone has yet announce so far , and you can't obviously expect a sub $100 SSD to compete with $200 SSD . Its impossible.
 
^^ that would be true, unless you'd been living under a rock :P

OCZ/Kingston have had 32gig SSD's for around 70bucks after MIR for quiet some time now.
The 64giggers are hovering around 150. I'm just waiting for the 64giggers to get to around 100 to bite.
 
^Stop being boastful about your presence in the US of A! You expect us Indians to claim an MIR let alone buy the stuff at bloated prices from KMD? :P
 
Desecrator said:
^Stop being boastful about your presence in the US of A! You expect us Indians to claim an MIR let alone buy the stuff at bloated prices from KMD? :P
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not being boastful about anything :ashamed:

At least OCZ had the balls to release a sub $100 SSD . I don't think anyone has yet announce so far , and you can't obviously expect a sub $100 SSD to compete with $200 SSD . Its impossible.
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Just pointing out that there are SSDs that perform better AND are cheaper as well.
 
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stalker said:
not being boastful about anything :ashamed:

Just pointing out that there are SSDs that perform better AND are cheaper as well.
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Please lets not turn this thread into a war zone.

I give up , you win stalker . I didn't know . There you go , I admit it , I didn't know . Everyone can't know everything , and I am no different .:peace:

I just wanted to share some news thats all . Don't jump on me like I am a piece of meat , ready to be pounced upon . ;)

Ok , so there exists cheaps SSD's
 
Anubis said:
Please lets not turn this thread into a war zone.

I give up , you win stalker . I didn't know . There you go , I admit it , I didn't know . Everyone can't know everything , and I am no different .

I just wanted to share some news thats all . Don't jump on me like I am a piece of meat , ready to be pounced upon . ;)

Ok , so there exists cheaps SSD's
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Ouch.. you getting worked up for no reason :bleh:
The only reason I quoted your reply in my last post was coz of Gannu :rofl:
nothing to do with you mate :cool2:
 
Anubis said:
I give up , you win stalker . I didn't know . There you go , I admit it , I didn't know . Everyone can't know everything , and I am no different .:peace:

I just wanted to share some news thats all . Don't jump on me like I am a piece of meat , ready to be pounced upon . ;)
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Why so defensive? He was just pointing out why it wasn't an "oh so awesome" purchase and he did have a valid point at that.
 
damn said:
Why so defensive? He was just pointing out why it wasn't an "oh so awesome" purchase and he did have a valid point at that.
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Brother , I know its not an "oh so awesome" purchase , but at least it'll ring more bells into the manufacturer's minds . I never did say , he didn't have a valid point
 
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I looked around a bit and found some sites selling it for $114.I for one would definitely be interested in a GO for these drives if the total cost including everything would come down to 5k,max 5.5k.

My hdd is the weakest link in my rig.
 
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