OCZ Trion 100 6Gb SATA 2.5-Inch SSD Series With Toshiba TLC NAND Flash

OCZ Storage Solutions, Inc., a Toshiba Group company, announced the availability of the Trion 100 SSD series.

Leveraging Toshiba TLC NAND flash and controller technology, the Trion 100 series was designed to deliver a balance of performance, reliability, endurance and value, providing an easy and affordable way for entry-level users to enhance their mobile or desktop systems.

With the aim of offering a superior computing experience over today’s HDDs, the Trion 100 series is rated at sequential read speeds up to 550MB/s, sequential write speeds up to 530MB/s and random read I/O performance up to 90,000 IO/s, Trion 100 SATA III SSDs help maximize system responsiveness and optimize storage operations enabling increased multitasking and productivity for end users.

Designed for mainstream users with varying storage needs, the Trion 100 will be available in capacities of 120GB, 240GB, 480GB, and 960GB. Additionally, they provide endurance with up to 240TBW.

“As the market for SSDs continues to mature the need for high quality yet affordably priced drives has only grown, and we are pleased to be able to provide exactly that with our new TLC based Trion Series SSDs,” said Daryl Lang, CTO, OCZ. “To deliver more robust endurance, the Trion has been optimized with extremely tight coupling between the premium Toshiba TLC NAND flash and firmware, making it an ideal solution for value-conscious users seeking an improved computing experience for both desktop and mobile applications.”

Trion series are also able to take advantage of SSD Guru, OCZ’s new, easy to use SSD management software tool which is designed to help users unlock the potential of their drives and enables end-user control of drive maintenance, monitoring, SSD tuning, OS optimization and more.

Reliability and quality procedures are incorporated into every OCZ drive; however, in the unlikely event that a drive needs to be replaced, Trion 100 is protected by OCZ’s ShieldPlus warranty for 3 years.