14 DAY TRIAL // OCZ has announced and demonstrated their first SSD drives to feature 32 GB and 64 GB storage capacities. The demonstration took place within the Consumer Electronics Show, and the company claimed that these two models are the beginning of a new line of solid-state products OCZ will develop soon.
Although some solid-state drives veterans such as Bitmicro or Mtron have released solid-state drives that feature storage capacities around 1 TB, OCZ's drives are one of the faster units on the market with read speeds of up to 58MB/sec and write speeds of around 35MB/sec. The manufacturer has also claimed that it will release even faster versions of the drives to support the SATA-II 3Gbps standard.
The upcoming SATA-II solid-state drives are expected to feature 120 MB/s read and 100 MB/s write speeds. Their new line of SSD drives will substantially contribute to the OCZ line of high-speed high-performing computers.
The released SATA solid-state drives feature a mean time between failure (MTBF) of 2,000,000 hours - more than 83,333 days of use. As usually, the cooling solutions provider has not skipped the aesthetics aspect, and its solid-state drives are probably the nicest-looking SSD drives on the market, as pictured. The drives PCB and memory chips are hidden in a brushed aluminum shell. The whole device weighs just 77 grams, but this needs perfecting, according to OCZ, so the next-gen of drives will only weigh 73 grams.
OCZ's attempt to infiltrate on the solid-state drives market may seem faint, since the two models are neither fast, nor highly capacitive, but, given the fact that OCZ is a worldwide leader in the DRAM sector, it won't be long until it catches up with the SSD industry's titans.
There is no word on pricing yet, but it is expected that the products will bear a price tag similar with the competition's.