OCZ Announces New Core Series V2 Solid State Drives [Core Series V2 SSDs – Faster, Increased Capacities]

OCZ Technology, a company who have already built a enviable reputation in the emerging and rapidly developing SSD market (and whose SSDs have already featured several times on TFTS), have announced a new range of solid state drives – known as the Core Series SSD V2 – which offer increased storage capacities and enhanced performance offering read speeds of 170MB/s and write speeds up to 98MB/s.

‘OCZ continues the trend of enabling consumers with the latest in cutting edge solid state disc technology with the introduction of the new Core V2 SSD,’ said OCZ Technology CEO Ryan Petersen who introduced OCZ’s new Core Series V2 SSDs. ‘As SSD technology progresses, OCZ will continue to release updated and enhanced solutions to ensure our customers stay on the leading edge. The new Core V2 drives offer consumers and system integrators increased capacities up to 250GB, improved read and write performance and faster seek time, all coupled with a new mini USB port empowering customers with the ability to further improve performance and compatibility by updating firmware in the future.’

The new Core Series V2 SSDs will offer 30GB, 60GB, 120GB and 250GB storage capacities and, according to OCZ, offer ‘additional performance and reliability of the latest SSDs at a 50% less price per gigabyte than other high speed offerings currently on the market’ (as well as a 1.5 million hour mean time before failure (MTBF) rating) though at the time of writing  OCZ are yet to confirm either the availability or pricing structure concerning its new SSD line-up, however, the moment such information becomes available you can be sure that we’ll offer a heads-up on TFTS.

OCZ Technology [via Daily Tech]