OCZ Colossus lives up to the name as a real biggy among Solid State Drives. The unit can store up to 1TB by housing two Indilinx flash memory controller together with loads of Samsung MLC NAND flash memory circuits. Colossus has the same measurements as a regular 3.5" harddrive, but is actually two drives in one set up in RAID 0 with a RAID controller from JMicron.
JMicron hasn't the best of reputations on the SSD market, but in this case it's not the memory controller but a RAID controller that keeps the two Indilinx flash controllers busy.
Performance is also fairly impressive with both read and write speeds at 265MB/s, which also hints of the bottleneck the SATA II interface is starting to become.
The unit will also be available with 512GB storage capacity and costs somewhere between $2,000-3,000, making it a sort of consumer version of OCZ Z-Drive, but with the same colossal price tag.
At the same time we're excited to what specifications a SATA 6Gbps model of Colossus would bring.
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OCZ Colossus - 3.5" 1TB SSD
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