OCZ Officially Announces Colossus 3.5" SSDs

Category: Storage / Hard Drives, General News
Posted: November 17, 2009 12:54PM
Author: MrAlex

OCZ Technology, manufacturer of computer parts has officially announced their first 3.5” Colossus Solid State Disks. The new drives will come in capacities of 120 GB, 250 GB, 500 GB and 1 TB, will use MLC NAND flash technology with an internal RAID 0 architecture and 128 MB of Cache. It will have an aluminium casing, a SATA 3.0 Gbps interface, read and write speeds of up to 260 MB/s and a 1.5 million hour mean time between failures (MTBF). It comes backed by a 3 Year warranty and dedicated technical support from OCZ themselves. It can be found for $437.99 for the 120 GB variant, while the 1 TB variant has yet to be listed and no exact RRPs by OCZ has been announced. “The new Colossus Series is designed to boost desktop and workstation performance and is for high power users that put a premium on speed, reliability and maximum storage capacity.”