Hate your wallet? Punch it in the face with one of OCZ’s new super speedy (and potentially very expensive) SSDs from the Octane series. The technology, recently acquired by way of acquisition back in March, will allow for super fast 570 MB/s read and 400 MB/s write speeds and feature up to 45,000 read IOPS. Not only that, the new Octane series drives will come in a vast assortment of capacities starting at 128 GB and jumping all the way up to a full terabyte. A less impressive but still plenty capable SATA II variant of the Octane line will pack 275/265 MB read/write speeds and 30,000 random 4K IOPS.

Speeds aside, OCZ is touting the new Indilux-powered drives’ increased write cycles: 3,000-5,000 PE write cycles for the old, non-Indilux compared to the newer (Indilux) spec of 6,000-10,000. Other items of interest include 512 MB of DRAM AES encryption and TRIM support, and finally, NCQ support.

Pricing hasn’t been outed yet but don’t expect the 1 TB SATA III option to approach anything remotely close to “affordable”. OCZ is aiming for ~$1.10-$1.30/GB meaning even at the lowest end you’re looking at $1,100 for a terabytes worth of solid state storage. Still, compared to what you could get in solid state storage just a couple of years ago, $1,100 is actually quite good.

Via: TechSpot