SSD Deals

The Vertex 2 from OCZ is one of the fastest drives available right now, with read speeds up to 275 megabytes per second and an even more impressive write speed of 250MB/s thanks to the powerful SandForce controller. This write speed compares very favorably to the most popular drive on the market right now – the Intel X25-M, which manages “only” 70MB/s in sequential writes.

Not only that, but with the current rebate, the OCZ Vertex 2 costs $100 less than the Intel drive ($329 with this deal)

• NAND Flash Components: Multi-Level (MLC) NAND Flash Memory, Interface: Sata 3.0Gbp/s, Form Factor: 2.5 inch slim design
• Life Expectancy: 2 million hours Mean Time Before Failure (MTBF), Reliability: ECC: 27 bytes of redundancy per 512 bytes of data
• OS Compatability: Windows XP 32/64 bit, Windows Vista 32/64 bit, Windows 7 32/64 bit, Linux, Certifications: RoHS, CE, FCC
• Max Read: up to 285 MB/s, Max Write: up to 275 MB/s, Sustained Write: up to 250 MB/s, 4k Random Write (Aligned): 50,000 IOPS, Seek Time: 0.1ms
• Power Consumption: Idle: 0.5 Watts, Active: 2 Watts, Performance Optimization: TRIM (requires OS support)

The OCZ Vertex offers your system the blazing-fast performance and reliability of flash-based technology at an extremely competitive price – especially with this great deal where you can grab one for as little as $85. The Vertex series packs all the latest breakthroughs in SSD technology, including the latest-generation architecture featuring the critically acclaimed Indilinx Barefoot controller with 64MB of onboard cache to improve transfers and give your system superior response times.

	Form Factor 2.5″ Capacity 30GB Interface Type SATA II Features RAID Support Performance Max Shock Resistance 1500G Sequential Access – Read Up to 230 MB/s Sequential Access – Write Up to 135MB/sSustained Write: Up to 80MB/s MTBF 1,500,000 hours

With 30GB of storage and power-efficient NAND flash in a compact form factor, the OCZ Vertex 30GB is ideal for laptops – to greatly improve speed, extend battery life, increase access time and provide a much more durable alternative to traditional hard drives. It utilizes the standard SATA II interface, which makes retrofitting this 30GB SSD into a laptop a breeze.

It is also perfectly suited as a boot drive for desktop PCs. Load it with your favorite operating system to cut boot time significantly and have room to spare for all of your most frequently used applications. In all, you will have perfectly silent drive with low power requirements and at the same time give a tremendous boost to the overall speed of your computer!

OCZs Z-drive series is aimed at enterprise servers, super computers and ultra high-end consumers. The Z-Drive removes the SATA interface bottleneck by using high speed PCI-Express. Internally, it works like a RAID array by linking up to four RAID0 controllers.

This enables transfer speeds up to 870MB/s read and 780MB/s write – an incredible result currently unmatched in performance by any other solution. All the while it consumes less power and is infinitely more durable than an array of conventional drives.

Right now there is a small number of 256GB drives available for more than 40% less than the list price.

Get yours now for $999.99 (list price: $1,708.92)

Fact Sheet:

Solid-state drives keep evolving into larger capacities, but the price tags on the roomiest drives are still exorbitant. In recent years, SSDs have gone from luxury to something you can afford in your home computer. When comparing SSD pricings relative to conventional hard drive capacity, most manufacturers still ship new computers with the latter.

Especially for higher-capacity SSDs the prices are still too high for most home users, but for companies with data centers that require excellent performance as well as lots of storage space, larger SSD variants may still be worthwhile. OCZ is aiming to meet that need with its 3.5-inch form factor (desktop size) Colossus series, where the largest drive now has room for a whole terabyte of data.

The Colossus 1TB drive is currently available at more than $600 below retail.

Drive Specs:

• NAND Flash Components: Multi-Level Cell (MLC) NAND Flash Memory, Interface: SATA II 3.0Gbp/s, Cache: 128MB, Form Factor: 3.5 Inch form factor
• Life Expectancy: 1 million hours Mean Time Before Failure (MTBF), Reliability: ECC: BCH with 8, 12 or 16 bits correctable, Product Health Monitoring: Self-Monitoring, Analysis and Reporting Technology
• Operating Temperature: 0C – 70C, Storage Temparature: -45C – +85C, Shock Resistance: 1500G, Certifications: RoHS, CE, FCC
• Max Read: up to 260MB/s, Max Write: up to 260MB/s, Sustained Write: up to 220MB/s, 4k IOPS (QD:32): 15,000 IOPS, Seek Time: 0.1 MS
• Power Consumtion: Idle: 4.3 Watts Active: 7.1Watts, Performance Optimization: Background Garbage Collection

The OCZ Onyx is a new SSD aimed at users looking for a fast boot drive or as a laptop hard drive replacement where storage space is not critical. It’s a 2.5-inch form factor SATA drive, and OCZ correctly calls it “ultra-affordable”. Now you can get some additional rebate on the already low $106.99 list price – it’s currently selling for just $89.99.

– Onyx SSDs provide high performance at a low price, making the technology available to customers who want to take advantage of SSD performance but do not want to pay the typically high price associated with the technology, says Ryan Petersen, CEO of OCZ.

The first model stores 32 gigabytes (actual available storage: 30GB) and is based on multilevel cell (MLC) NAND circuits. Read speed is 125 megabytes per second, while write operations are carried out at 70 megabytes per second.

According to the manufacturer, the Onyx manages an operating time of 1.5 million hours MTBF according to the standard, a type of endurance measurement.