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Colossus 3.5-inch SSD is up to 1TB |
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Written by Hideo
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Thursday, 19 November 2009 |
 Almost six months after their first sighting, OCZ formally launched the Colossus, its first solid-state drive line aimed primarily at the desktop. The 3.5-inch SATA II disks are designed to fit directly into desktops without a mounting kit. The 120GB, 250GB, 500GB and 1TB drives have an aluminum casing and feature MLC (multi-level cell) NAND flash memory chips, internal RAID, two controllers and 128MB of cache memory, a SATA 3.0 Gbps interface, a MTBF (mean time before failure) of 1.5 million hours.
OCZ has raised its speed claims beyond early estimates and now says
that the fastest Colossus drives reach peak read and write speeds of
260MB per second and sustained write speeds of 220MB per second. Only
Amazon is known to be stocking the Colossus models so far but
officially lists new orders as taking a month or more to ship. Prices
range from $609 for a 120GB disk to $3,572 for a 1TB Colossus Cascade.
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