It's Finally Here: The 1-Tbyte SSD
While OCZ has broken the SSD's capacity barrier, boy, will you pay for it.
All those claims about how you just can't get SSDs in capacities comparable to those you can find with traditional hard drives will now have to be rethought. OCZ has announced the Colossus LT series of 3.5-inch SSDs that are available in capacities up to 1TB.
The catch? Need you ask? It's the price. The 1TB drive will set you back $4,000. And no, that's not a typo.
OCZ boasts about the series' "excellent" mean time between failure (MTBF) rating of one million hours, and backs up the drive with a three-year warranty and dedicated technical support.
We'll be interested to see how (or whether) the new Colossus drives will change the market, and finally help nudge capacities up and prices down at a slightly faster rate. For all but the most dedicated enthusiasts, however, we imagine the prices still have to drop a lot.
Would you be willing to pay $4,000 for a 1TB SSD? What's the maximum you would pay, for what capacity? Let us know in the comments.