News - OCZ announces second-generation Z-Drive SSD.

[HEXUS]

Promising faster speeds and interchangeable NAND.

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[Crazytom]

Damn thats fast...
With a bit of luck though, this technology will become more mainstream and therefore significantly cheaper. In a couple of years I might consider buying one

[CK_1985]

Any word on prices? I could do with a laugh...

[0iD]

Any word on prices? I could do with a laugh...

Performance rarely comes cheap, though, and the top-of-the-range 2TB R2 p88 is due to cost around £4,000.

[TheAnimus]

actually £4k for 2TB of ultra fast data is very cheap for a business.

There are many databases which are only 1TB which would hudgely benefit from this, and at this price you don't have to get sign off from the CTO. That alone saves you having to do the whole "oh but we've got this enterprise SAN, use that" bollocks.

[latrosicarius]

Got 2 questions.

(1) form factor. That looks like a full-size card. Do they sell them in low-profile a.k.a. 2U server rack size?

(2) TRIM. The article said it's internally RAID-0. To my knowledge, no consumer RAID card or chipset to date passes the TRIM command. Does this?

[[-Stash-]]

Actually, £4k for 2TB is right in line with the "only-200MB/s" 2.5" SSDs

Soooooo, in theory, when intel releases the 28nm NAND at the end of this year this price should pretty much half? Then you're starting to talk (slightly) more sensible prices

[badass]

actually £4k for 2TB of ultra fast data is very cheap for a business.

There are many databases which are only 1TB which would hudgely benefit from this, and at this price you don't have to get sign off from the CTO. That alone saves you having to do the whole "oh but we've got this enterprise SAN, use that" bollocks.

Sooooooooo true.