OCZ presents Trion 100 budget SSDs

The popular maker of memory and SSDs OCZ has announced the new Trion 100 family of budget-oriented solid-state drives.

The new Trion 100 SSD line offers the common 2.5-inch form factor and has SSDs that are 7 mm thick. The solid-state drives support SATA 3.0 and offer 120 GB, 240 GB, 480 GB and 960 GB capacities. The drives are based on 19 nm TLC NAND flash memory and include Toshiba/Phison TC58 memory controllers as well as 512 MB of DDR3 cache. As to performance the Trion 100 family reaches 550 MB/sec of read speed and between 450-530 MB/sec of write speed depending on the drive chosen as well as 90 000 IOPS of random 4K read and 64 000 IOPS of random 4K write. OCZ says the Trion 100 line includes very reliable drives – they can sustain 27.4-219 GB of written data per day for 3 years and need just 4.8 watts of power.

Here’s what you must pay for a Trion 100 SSD – the 120 GB model sells for USD 57, while the 240 GB, 480 GB and 960 GB models cost USD 88, USD 185 and USD 370, respectively.

Source: OCZ