OCZ Colossus 1TB SSD gets official

Call your SSD “Colossus” and you’ll be expected to back that up with some hard figures, and OCZ have certainly managed to do that. The OCZ Colossus 3.5-inch SSD packs up to 1TB of storage, and while it’s taken more time than expected for them to reach the market – we first caught sight of them in June – anybody hoping for speedy, solid-state capacity should find something to satisfy.

The 1TB flagship manages an even 260MB/s for both maximum read and write speeds, together with 220MB/s for sustained write speeds. OCZ reckon it’ll go 1.5m hours between failures, and offer a standard 3-year warranty.

OCZ’s press release doesn’t mention pricing for the Colossus, but back in August (when we were told the drives were just a month away from release) they did make some figures public. Four models will be available: the Colossus 120 (128GB, 250 (256GB), 500 (512GB) and 1TB (1024GB) priced at $300, $650, $1,200 and $2,200 respectively.

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