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    OCZ Colossus 3.5-Inch SSD Reaches 1TB, Super Speeds

    OCZ Sabre OLED Keyboard (Unofficial Codename: Optimus Budgetus) Priced at $135

    OCZ Sabre Does OLED Custom Keys On the Cheap

    What's the Best USB Flash Drive?

    OCZ DIY Netbook: A Build-a-Bear for the Basement-Dwelling Crowd

    An Extensive, Obsessive Performance Test Of... USB Keys?

    OCZ Pushing Out a Line of Crafty, Power-Grubbing eSATA Thumb Drives

    OCZ CrossOver Flash Drive Features microSD Expansion

    Sub-$500 128GB Drive from OCZ May be the SSD You've Been Saving For

    OCZ Trifecta: Swiss Army Knife of Storage/Sausage
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    Image of olternaut olternaut
    11/23/09

    In reply to OCZ Colossus 3.5-Inch SSD Reaches 1TB, Super Speeds
    Woh woh woh woh wohhhhhhhhhhhhh..........woh!

    3GB/s??? Is that real world speeds? And is that even possible on a SATA connection? I thought the hotness was for the uber pci-express based solid state drives? And the top speeds I've seen for those, the supertalent raiddrive in fact, is supposed to have a top read speed of 1.4 GB/s.
    So.......someone please explain how is 3GB/s possible on a SATA connection and should I forget about wanting a supertalent raiddrive?

    Thanks.
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    Image of nutbastard nutbastard
    11/23/09

    @olternaut:

    Algerad nailed it. Gb not GB.
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    Image of Ajh Ajh
    11/23/09

    In reply to OCZ Colossus 3.5-Inch SSD Reaches 1TB, Super Speeds
    Don't SSD wear out after so many read write? Will this have the same durability as the current hard drives? I don't know about you all but I download and delete and such on my desktop a LOT more than on a netbook or even an mp3 player.
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    Image of Zoolook Zoolook
    11/23/09

    @Ajh: Ignore the other reply... anecdote.Yes, Flash drives have a finite read/write life, it's about 10,000 writes for the lowest end, or 100,000 writes for the top end Intel brands - lots of clever software spreads out the read-write amongst memory pages (called wear levelling).

    Even if you write up to 200GBs per month (that's a lot), with level wearing, it would take 900 years to use up all 10,000 page writes (the theoretical maximum life of a low end drive).

    More realistically, you're looking at a lifespan well in excess of 10 years (i.e. longer than a mechanical drive).More here: [www.anandtech.com]
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    Mark Wilson promoted this comment Edited by Zoolook at 11/23/09 1:01 PM Zoolook was starred Zoolook was unstarred
    Image of w0ng3r w0ng3r
    11/23/09

    In reply to OCZ Colossus 3.5-Inch SSD Reaches 1TB, Super Speeds
    While I submitted this tip sometime ago, I realized that for that money you could saturate SATAII's bandwidth with a bunch of regular drives in raid at a fraction of that ridiculous price
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    Image of Aertea Aertea
    11/23/09

    @w0ng3r: In an ideal situation; dealing with large contiguous files, yes. Unfortunately, bandwidth isn't the problem seek time, on the other hand, is.
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    Nathan Obbards promoted this comment Edited by Aertea at 11/23/09 12:04 PM Aertea was starred Aertea was unstarred
    Image of Nathan Obbards Nathan Obbards
    11/23/09

    In reply to OCZ Colossus 3.5-Inch SSD Reaches 1TB, Super Speeds
    I wouldn't call that hacking speeds, I'd call it being smart on the part of OCZ.
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    Image of chauncy that billups chauncy that billups
    11/23/09

    In reply to OCZ Colossus 3.5-Inch SSD Reaches 1TB, Super Speeds
    $3,300 today, $330 a year from now, $33 two years from now.
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    Image of SkipErnst SkipErnst
    11/23/09

    @chauncy that billups: Not to rain on your parade, but I don't think these drives will drop in price ten fold every year. In fact, does anything new drop in price that quickly?
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    Image of chauncy that billups chauncy that billups
    11/23/09

    @SkipErnst: i was exaggerating for effect, but I would not be surprised in the slightest to see sub-$100 1 TB SSD's in two years.

    #tips
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    Image of J2M3 J2M3
    11/23/09

    In reply to OCZ Colossus 3.5-Inch SSD Reaches 1TB, Super Speeds
    Can you imagine the day these cost the same as magnetic drives? Laptops and PCs will finally rid themselves of one of the largest bottlenecks in systems today.
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    Image of ottermann killed Kenny ottermann killed Kenny
    07/10/09

    In reply to OCZ Sabre OLED Keyboard (Unofficial Codename: Optimus Budgetus) Priced at $135
    Does this mean I can change a key to become the "Any" key?
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    Image of Con Seannery Con Seannery
    07/10/09

    @ottermann: Or a BILLY MAYS key?
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    Image of TysonNardwuar TysonNardwuar
    07/10/09

    In reply to OCZ Sabre OLED Keyboard (Unofficial Codename: Optimus Budgetus) Priced at $135
    What I need is a keyboard that can change the keyboard layout, for different scripts, so changing the keys A-Z, 0.9 and some special char keys. The other keys don't interest me.

    So for me, this keyboard is actually 0.0% the keyboard the Optimus is!
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    Image of VenomIreland VenomIreland
    07/10/09

    In reply to OCZ Sabre OLED Keyboard (Unofficial Codename: Optimus Budgetus) Priced at $135
    I'm dissapointed after reading OLED and seeing this, I normally love OCZ and think this is alright but for $135 I'd expect a few more Display keys. It really does plae in comparison to the Optimus Maximus though, that thing costs more than my estimated computer costs.


    EDIT: Didn't know it had 9 screens, that's pretty damn good for the price. I love this edit button!
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    Edited by VenomIreland at 07/10/09 6:55 AM VenomIreland was starred VenomIreland was unstarred
    Image of WaffleTeamStrike! v26.00 WaffleTeamStrike! v26.00
    07/10/09

    In reply to OCZ Sabre OLED Keyboard (Unofficial Codename: Optimus Budgetus) Priced at $135
    Those don't look like OLED screen-keys...hmm. Any better pics than this?
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    Image of VenomIreland VenomIreland
    07/10/09

    @WaffleTeamStrike:
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    Image of VenomIreland VenomIreland
    07/10/09

    @VenomIreland: Ok I've encountered a bug in the comments, in my comment above the paragraph seperaters have vanished and in this comment the image has vanished.
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    Image of Hello Mister Walrus Hello Mister Walrus
    06/23/09

    In reply to OCZ Sabre Does OLED Custom Keys On the Cheap
    So is the yellow glowing keys are the numpad, why is there a second numpad on the right of the keyboard? I don't think I can take this!
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    Image of GitEmSteveDave_ My Brute Dojo Code CDIAFIFE GitEmSteveDave_ My Brute Dojo Code CDIAFIFE
    06/23/09

    @Hello Mister Walrus: I think they meant the macro pad.
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    Image of John Herrman John Herrman
    06/23/09

    @Hello Mister Walrus: Yep, my bad. Fixed.
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    Image of SirDrinksalot SirDrinksalot
    06/23/09

    In reply to OCZ Sabre Does OLED Custom Keys On the Cheap
    AWH, it has the shitty delete button. I OFFICIALLY CUT IT FROM THE TEAM.
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    Image of GitEmSteveDave_ My Brute Dojo Code CDIAFIFE GitEmSteveDave_ My Brute Dojo Code CDIAFIFE
    06/23/09

    @SirDrinksalot: Yeah, but the larger delete button is necesary for when you make big mistakes. Smaller delete buttons can only delete smaller mistakes and errors.
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    Image of stradric stradric
    06/23/09

    @SirDrinksalot: That's actually a more efficient layout. I was upset when I noticed the Logitech wave had that layout, but I picked it up anyway and find it to be superior (after some getting used to). Mostly, it's the home and end keys that are much easier to work with. It makes sense. Home on the left, End on the right because that's what they do. Home and End on top of eachother is kind of stupid when you think about it.


    Plus, a large delete key makes sense because it's an oft-used key.

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    Image of NeoAkira NeoAkira
    06/23/09

    @stradric:


    I've never used the delete button on a PC keyboard. I doubt it as often used as the space bar, entre, delete, number pad, etc.

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    Image of not_a_virus.exe.vbs not_a_virus.exe.vbs
    05/14/09

    In reply to What's the Best USB Flash Drive?
    I also bought one of those "super small" USB sticks from Sony, the one that is about the size of a dime? The security guard where I work made a stink over me bring my Cruzer in so I bought a sony one. It is so small it fits inside of my badge holder. I showed him!
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    Image of not_a_virus.exe.vbs not_a_virus.exe.vbs
    05/14/09

    In reply to What's the Best USB Flash Drive?
    The only drives I buy are the Sandisk Titanium Cruzer and the rubberized Corsair ones.
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    Image of Dr. H. F. Danger Dr. H. F. Danger
    05/14/09

    In reply to What's the Best USB Flash Drive?
    Corsair Flash Voyager 4GB worked good for two years. Thank god for the 10yr warranty. Just sent it in for an RMA, hope to get a nice new flash drive.
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