Wow, so instead of calling it a 256GB product they are reserving 6GB of cells for spare sectors. The Plan: E8400 w/ TRUE, Abit IP35 Pro XE, 4GB DDR2, P182, 48x0 w/ S1, ZM850-HP, VelociRaptor 300GB, X-Fi Elite Pro. USB is for firmware upgrade only ( i will recheck) and the drives are sata _ About to assemble a new PC. Drives arrive with OCZ early next week I hear, in stores immediately after. The push to make the drives faster is a weekly thing, it really is quite scary at the moment. SSD tech is moving at a furious pace, much faster than i have seen anything move for quite a while. The plan is to make Core more affordable and Core2 just a little above it. _ Intel i7-3770S l Thermalright Venomous X l Asus Sabertooth Z77 l 8GB G.SKILL Sniper Low Voltage l? L Samsung 830 256GB l Areca ARC-1200 l WD Caviar GreenPower 1TB (RAID1) l Pioneer BDR-207DBK l Creative X-Fi Titanium HD l Kingwin Stryker l Antec Solo II l HP LP2475w. As soon as 64GB SLC SSDs from Mtron and Memoright drop in price, I'm on that train. Their lame 'technology is moving so fast' excuse doesn't cut it they used their customers to beta test product (with most places offering no return except for 'defect') and then when they realized those same customers would let others know that the product sucked, they go ahead and offer a new product with the specs that should have been on the original product. Well, after years of buying OCZ products, I'm done. Today, mysteriously, it started INTERMITTENTLY failing with messages like 'Serialization scheme was not recognized' and 'Could not instantiate a required server object'. I'm being called in as IT consultant by my wife, who uses SPSS. This website is owned and operated by Toshiba Memory America, Inc. Trademark ⧉ Outside of Toshiba Website (Open in a new window). How do I use SSD Utility to update my firmware? How do I create a SSD Utility Support Package? Just purchase a new OCZ SSD? Register Your OCZ Products. Welcome to the Toshiba OCZ SSD brand website.

The addition of a mini-USB port also makes it possible for customers in the field to update the Core V2’s firmware should new versions become available, to further enhance compatibility or performance with future platforms. Quote: Featuring new architecture, the Core Series SSD V2 will be available in up to a massive 250GB capacity and delivers enhanced speeds of up to 170 MB/s read and 98 MB/s write speeds with an improved seek time of less than 0.2-0.3ms, making the Core V2 significantly faster when it comes to both Read/Write and seek-time performance.

Ocz Core Series V2 Firmware Update