OCZ Colossus SSD Breaks Cover

As you can see, Colossus is definitely a tightly packed design and densities are expected to range from a low end of 128GB with 256GB, 512GB and 1TB models.  The other mildly interesting thing about the OCZ Colossus is the fact that it comes packaged in a 3.5" hard drive casing, just the thing for those of you who don't know how you're going to mount a 2.5" SSD in a standard ATX style chassis.  The Colossus will come in a couple of different variants as well - Colossus standard, which is what you're looking at here and a Colossus 4X, which will offer a pair of the above SSDs coupled inside the single case you see here as well. 

Word is the RAID controller that co-joins the Indilinx pair is based on Silicon Image technology with maximum read and write performance of around 260MB/sec.  The operative word is "maximum" there.  We'll reserve judgment until we get one of these drives in house for testing first hand.  In the mean time, with a projected price of $299 for a 128GB drive, it could possibly give Intel's new Gen 2 X25-M drives a run for their money, at the very least from cost standpoint.  We'll see what the numbers look like soon though.