Until 2009, Solid State Drive (SSD) popularity was only growing in the elite enthusiast circles. Then along comes the Indilinx Barefoot chip, which quickly became the backbone SSD controller for over a dozen different products. Crucial, being The Memory Experts that they are, have returned to the market with their second SSD product. By most accounts, this isn’t par for the course when you consider how often the competition reveals a new product line. Equipped with the test-proven Indilinx Barefoot controller and 64MB of DRAM buffer, Crucial is insured that the M225-series will deliver outstanding performance. Read more…
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OCZ is getting close to releasing its Colossus SSD line, with sizes ranging from 128GB to 1TB. The unique part about this drive is that it takes two solid state drives and binds them together via a RAID setup and dual Indilinx controllers with their own DRAM. It is all mounted on a single PCB so that to the system, it appears as if it is still one drive. All this while fitting into a standard 3.5″ case and achieving rated speeds of about 260 MB/s all the way up to 1TB.
The Colossus allows fast speeds at sizes normally not seen on SSDs, and with the 128GB version to cost about $299 it is now a consumer item if a luxury one. The 1TB version, of course, will cost much more. Read more…