SSDs are starting to become more affordable, while more and more memory integrators present their interest in developing solid-state drives. Among the latest companies to announce a new line of SSDs is memory integrator OCZ. The press release informs us that the Core Series from OCZ offers SSD products at a 50% less price per gigabyte than other high speed offerings currently on the market. In other words, the suggested retail price for the 32GB, 64GB and 128GB models are $169, $259 and $479 USD, respectively.

Protecting the drives is a lightweight alloy housing, which does not make the SSDs susceptible to damage since they have no moving parts. The OC drives have 1.5 million hour mean time before failure (MTBF) and come backed by a two year warranty. The Core Series also feature seek times of less than 0.35ms.
Here’s a detailed specs list:

• Read 120-143 MB/sec
• Write 80-93 MB/sec
• Slim 2.5" Design
• 100.2 x 70 x 9.5mm
• Lightweight 77g
• Low Power Consumption
• Shock Resistant 1500G
• RAID Support
• MTBF 1.5 million hours
• 2 year warranty
• Part Numbers: Core 32GB - OCZSSD2-1C32G, Core 64GB - OCZSSD2-1C64G, Core 128GB - OCZSSD2-1C128G