OCZ opens new SSD plant
OCZ's new manufacturing plant nearly triples its production capabilities for SSD storage products.
The new plant, opened in Taipei today, will specialise in producing the company's various solid-state storage devices, and adds over 20,000 square feet of manufacturing floor space to the company's stable.
Ryan Petersen, chief executive at OCZ Technology, claims that the decision to open the new plant came 'in response to increased demand from OEMs for our enterprise solid state drive products, and significantly increases our monthly SSD [manufacturing] capacity.'
With production of solid-state storage devices for both consumer and enterprise markets expected to increase from the current level of 50,000 units per month to an estimated 140,000 units per month when the new plant is fully up to speed, OCZ could well steal a significant march over its rivals with the supply to meet growing demand.
The new increase in production capacity comes as OCZ reports to investors and analysts a three-fold increase in monthly unit sales between the start of the year and August, demonstrating the kind of demand for solid-state storage devices that Seagate chief executive Steve Luczo is apparently willing to ignore.
With vastly improved production capabilities and clearly increasing demand, OCZ should hopefully be able to start reducing the price of its SSD product lines to a point where they can begin to compete with traditional hard drives at the mainstream level.
Do you think that OCZ has the right idea, or is the company betting on the wrong technology as Seagate seems to think? Share your thoughts over in the forums.
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Me too, great minds...
I wonder how far away this is from Bindi.
My dream of having entirely SSD storage in three to four years' time for my next rig comes closer to reality.
IBIS is interesting if you intend to run one such drive. If you want to RAID few of them you can't because IBIS architecture is already 'RAIDed' internally.
Both routes (SSD/hybrid-HDD) are total dead ends. HDRs are probably way forward, but this technology is still some time into the future. h-HDDs just like hybrid cars are just ridiculous waste of money and materials. SSDs is of course very nice, but it won't survive too long. Certainly not as main storage solution. Prices won't drop too much for very simple reason. Every new generation of NAND Flash while faster is more and more expensive. So with every new generation of SSDs we will witness exactly the same crazy circle, as with previous SSDs.
I only have 2 games installed on mine and that's only because they have exceptionally long loading times. Most games only take a few seconds loading anyway off a normal drive to not need to fill my SSD. I'm still only using half the space on my 128GB SSD since buying it back in December.
For most things the only benefit of an SSD is its silent compared to the wurring of a normal drive which unless you watercool you won't hear that over fans and GPU cooler anyway.
I find anything less then 128gb is to small (recommend 256gb or 2x segate xt drives as they work very well in raid for the price and do not need to worry about trim)
ALL SSDs use a form of internal RAID for performance. Ibis just links in multiple distinct devices (think groups of chips), rather than RAID on the chips themselves. You can run RAID with Ibis.
You mean like the way NAND gets more expensive every year? I could swear 8GB memory cards used to be over £100. In fact I remember paying £60 for 2GB in the past. NAND is coming down in price as manufacturing increases, and cell sizes shrink: http://news.softpedia.com/news/NAND-Flash-Prices-Still-Falling-157974.shtml
The performance increases are largely coming from the controllers, not the chips themselves.