Technological advancements are resulting in to facilitate people with features like lesser expenditure of time to do a task and with more accuracy, lesser consumption of space by a device and lesser spending of money for more better devices.New Solid State Drives from OCZ Technology fulfill the ‘merit criteria’ written above. With the speed of 120 MB/s for reading and 100 MB/s for writing the data, this second generation of OCZ SSDs have doubled the reading speed and remained slightly short of tripling the writing speed when compared with its predecessor which had the 58MB/s and 35MB/s reading and writing speeds respectively. One thing which is common in both is the size i.e. 2.5 inch. Also this generation of SSDs are less pricey than their predecessors with the price tag of $1099 as compared to the previous one which was $1200 with same capacity of 64MB which was the only model available in that generation. The another model in the new SSDs is 0f 32MB capacity and worth $499.

The data reading speed of 120 MB/s has resulted in the upgradation of the SSDs to SATA-II standard, since that much speed of 120 MB/s is beyond the capabilities of the SATA-I standard. By upgrading to SATA-II standard, the data transfer rates are extended to 300 MB/s, which I think could be capable enough to work with the future generation SSDs of more increased speeds.

These 100.2 x 70 x 9.5mm Solid State Drives come up with RAID support and 2 million hours of MTBF, weighing only 77 grams giving themselves a significant edge over having bulky conventional Hard Disk Drives. Also, these SSD drives are more reliable in a way that they are less prone to damage with shock resistance of 1500G than more fragile HDDs.

After getting known of these SSDs from ‘all-sides’, the bad thing I have found about these devices is of its price, which is somewhat made to manage in the second generation, still is quiet more. But the hope is also there as there are claims that these devices would have their prices lowered after some time to an affordable point.

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