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I'm not so sure I would want one. At this stage of the game, Solid State Drives aren't as reliable as a regular harddrive from what I've seen on the net, and they cost more to make.

Tempting price that. Though think I will leave it until next year when I do an upgrade to SSD.

Still the price is awfully tempting.

all sounds promising...as long as its not the size of a house.

What is the benefit of a SSD compared to a regular HD?

A solid-state drive (SSD) is a data storage device that uses solid-state memory to store persistent data.
Unlike flash-based memory cards, a SSD emulates a hard disk drive, thus easily replacing it in most applications.
An SSD using SRAM or DRAM (instead of flash memory) is often called a RAM-drive.

solid-state drives are inherently less fragile than hard disks and therefore also silent (unless a cooling fan is used); as there are no mechanical delays, they usually enjoy low access time and latency.

And they offer access speeds equivalent to RAM - meaning your HD is no longer the bottleneck when booting.

You think WD Raptors are fast? Pfft. The theory here is that RAM is 1000+ times faster than HDs, so a 'drive' made of RAM would be faster.

The ultimate reality is that only a few are truly faster than conventional high speed drives - and this OCZ is one of them, last I looked.

OCZ revamps Core

Available Monday

By Paul Taylor: Friday, 15 August 2008, 6:52 PM


OCZ, PURVEYOR OF ALL things memory related, has announced its second generation Core products, just a month and a half after launching Gen 1. Core V2 SSD is the name of the game and the company has delivered some serious all-round improvements that many will welcome.

The new SSDs boast higher write speeds (98MB/s vs. 95MB) and considerably higher read speeds (170MB/s vs. 143MB/s) over the previous generation Core SSDs. Seek time has been cut down to anything from .2 to .3 milliseconds, compared to the .35 in the original. The new kit will include 30GB, 60GB, 120GB and 250GB versions – with a matching name – in order to avoid confusion between reported capacity and listed capacity.

OCZ has also added a mini-USB port for firmware updates “in the field”, which we guess will allow better support and diagnostics at service centres. Like the previous generation, these SSDs are RAID capable, meaning you can stick a couple of these in RAID 0 and spank your old spinning HDD.

Overall it looks like a new-and-improved everything, but we hope OCZ knows what it’s doing. The problem with being “pioneering” about things is that you seldom have the chance of making any money back on what you’re pitching – especially if you’re breaking ground price-wise.

The Core V2 SSD will be available Monday. Pricing was nowhere to be found… not even at the OCZ sales office. µ

from OCZ revamps Core - The INQUIRER

liking what i am reading in the news about these ssd's!!!

can't wait to get one or two later this year maybe start of next year, i'm thinking 2 cause that would be so worth the money one smallish one say 64gb for system and one biggie like the 250gb for other apps leaving music and vids on a hdd how quick would that thing move??? any faster and you'd be waiting on your ram to catch up lol.

keeping my eyes on the news for this one and prices are dropping too it's all good.