OCZ SATA-II 32GB 2.5-Inch SSD OCZSSD2-1S32G

OCZ SATA-II 32GB 2.5-Inch SSD OCZSSD2-1S32G (http://benchmarkreviews.com/index.php?option=com_cont ent&task=view&id=176&Itemid=1)

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Perhaps Benchmark Reviews like to ride the edge of technology just a little too close, since we've tested more DDR3 and SSD's than almost everyone else on the web, but the bleeding edge is what where most enthusiasts like to live. OCZ allowed us to test their first Solid State Drive product, the OCZSSD64GB, and while the pricing very affordable the performance wasn't so impressive. Now just a short three months later, OCZ has returned with one of the industries very first SATA-II SSD products, the OCZSSD2. It would be a shame to give away the details, but it appears that the extra time at the design table was very well spent. OCZ's new Solid State Drive offers industry leading performance matched by ultra-affordable pricing, and sets a new record.

$600? What a joke.

SSDs are worthless and overly expensive right now. The benefit of SSDs requires a new architecture for data transfer, not existing models like SATA and IDE. Nobody is taking advantage of what the real benefit of the solid state solution is supposed to be: lots of speed.

Moreover, SSDs are highly limited in lifetime, and wear out after x amount of writes. Making it a less than desirable format for environments with a lot of re-writing.

Moreover, SSDs are highly limited in lifetime, and wear out after x amount of writes. Making it a less than desirable format for environments with a lot of re-writing.

With better drives and write mapping (forget the tech term) this isnt that big of an issue anymore.

And 32gb is too small for a lot of purposes. I'd be interested if they had a slower (and cheaper) 128gb.

eh, just an OS drive, nothing to special

I don't necessarily think it's OK for you and your buddy to be promoting yourselves and mirroring every single content update from your own sites on here.

Marked as lame.

I don't necessarily think it's OK for you and your buddy to be promoting yourselves and mirroring every single content update from your own sites on here.

Marked as lame.

I actually think its a good thing non-tw members are posting content to the front page. If this was somebodies crappy blog I would agree with you and bury it as lame.

I actually think its a good thing non-tw members are posting content to the front page. If this was somebodies crappy blog I would agree with you and bury it as lame.Actually, jamesjimmy isn't so bad, at least he does some cherry picking of the articles.

But Das is 3 for 3 on irrelevant hardware articles.

Not that I'm the authority or anything, just calling it like I see it.

I try and post videos or news that I think the folks here would like. I won't BS you I do love getting traffic to our site, but I'm also a hardcore gamer. The reason we post/host the videos is so peeps can see them as quickly as possible and in Good quality. Thats not to say every trailer we have is mind blowing HD quality but I encode them at 1000kbps-2000kbps or higher and never screw with the res. So if the company sends me a trailer @ 1280x720 thats the res we post it in. The quality is only limited by the source video we receive. ;)

I hate watching trailers on a tiny ars player @ 425x355 and encoded at 150kbps lol. Whats the point... Half the time I can't figure out if the player is holding a flippin coffee cup or a grenade...

As for the news, "cherry picking" explains it well. This community is pretty large so I try my best to post things peeps here will like. But because of this community's size its hard to please everyone. If there's any news, trailers or screenshots in particular anyone here would like to see more of Please feel free to post any and all suggestions. We're a gamers site and always open to new ideas. And if anyone wants to see less of anything mention that too ;)

If I had more time I would post more from other sites. As it stands now we recive twice as much news and trailers ect than we actually post on our site. In dire need of writers we are -as yoda would say... I can barely keep up lol...

If the mods/owners would like me to stop posting links to our trailers ect. I will, I'm a gamer not a spammer and I don't want to piss anyone off.

As for the SSd's: I'll stick with my cheetah's ;)

I'm all for the news. I actually check out almost every single one of jimmy's posts. Their sites get traffic, we get news from various sources. Both sites benefit. I don't see the issue.

SSDs are worthless and overly expensive right now. The benefit of SSDs requires a new architecture for data transfer, not existing models like SATA and IDE. Nobody is taking advantage of what the real benefit of the solid state solution is supposed to be: lots of speed.

Moreover, SSDs are highly limited in lifetime, and wear out after x amount of writes. Making it a less than desirable format for environments with a lot of re-writing.Could you try spreading anything less false? It would take the average user almost twenty years of constant use to reach the rewrite limit of SSDs produced in the past year.

As far as speed, and relevance, I guess you'll never know until you see them in action. My system can boot up in under four seconds flat, and loads games almost instantly.

Speaking of relevance, I don't understand how enthusiast hardware can be anthing but relevant to gamers? I guess that I missed something somewhere, but don't you game on a PC? Last I checked, gamers liked their hardware. I don't post everything here, only what I consider relevant. I suppose you would rather just keep it focused on games?

Actually, jamesjimmy isn't so bad, at least he does some cherry picking of the articles.

But Das is 3 for 3 on irrelevant hardware articles.

Not that I'm the authority or anything, just calling it like I see it.You do realize that I only submit the articles, I don't approve them. I've submitted A LOT of our articles, as we publish a handful each week, but only five have been published here.

Bleh. 32 gigs.. i'd install my OS, oblivion + mods and i'd lose 2/3 of that capacity right off the bat.

call me when it hits $1 a gig and i'll buy one.

I actually have one of these shipping as we speak. Finally building the all out bod piece by piece. Its going to be my OS drive and for apps a I use a lot. The secondary WD drive will be for files etc. Some guys are running two of these things in raid 0 which is insane. They read fast enough already. They are expensive right now but SSD is the future versus disc drives.