OCZ Technology has announced the release of 3,5 ” SSD Colossus series. New line of Solid State Drives supposed to be used in high-performance segment, which requires a large amount of disk space. It is assumed that target audience of these flash drives are enthusiastic and corporate level customers. Senior model has a capacity of 1 TB.
In addition to the increased capacity Colossus SSDs with SATA II interface have high speed parameters due to the internal RAID0 architecture. According to OCZ, the new series of drives are excellent with such tasks as moving small files while working with email, web surfing, file transferring. Test results to confirm this information are not provided, but the specification of the solid sate drives is promising: maximum read speed is 260 Mb/s, write – 260 Mb/s, long continuous recording – 220 Mb/s (for 128-GB model -140 Mb/s).
Series is represented by four models: 128 GB, 256 GB, 512 GB and 1 TB. Maximum number of IOPS operations (input/output per second) in random write access for 4 Kb file equals to 14280, 16100, 12300 and 13300 respectively. For comparison: for a 160 GB X25-M Intel SSD this parameters is 8600. OCZ Colossus based on multilevel flash memory cells (MLC), has 128 Mb cache and are equipped with two controllers. Other characteristics are: seek time is less than 1 ms, the maximum impact power – 1500 G, mean time between failures (MTBF) – 1,5 million hours. Devices are enclosed in aluminum shell measuring 146 x 101,6 x 25,4 mm. Price of Colossus 500 GB (OCZ refers to Amazon.com) – $ 1770.
