OCZ Colossus SATA II 3.5" Solid State Drive - 500GB - (OCZSSD2-1CLS500G)

The Colossus Series 3.5” SATA Solid State Drives deliver exceptional performance for high end desktops and are the result of OCZ’s latest breakthroughs in flash based storage. Designed to offer PC enthusiasts a best-in-class storage upgrade from traditional hard disc drives, the innovative Colossus Series features incredible speed and ample storage for the complete gamut of gaming, multimedia and demanding productivity applications. The Colossus and Colossus Cascade deliver all the proven benefits of SSDs such as superior system responsiveness, ultra-fast data access, and greater durability, while providing the storage capacity desktop users demand. The OCZ Colossus Series 3.5” SATA Solid State Drive is designed to offer PC enthusiasts a best-in-class storage upgrade featuring incredible speed and ample storage for the complete range of desktop applications.

IMPORTANT NOTE: Solid State Drives DO NOT require defragmentation. It may decrease the lifespan of the drive.

*Consumers may see a discrepancy between reported capacity and actual capacity; the storage industry standard is to display capacity in decimal. However, the operating system usually calculates capacity in binary format, causing traditional HDD and SSD to show a lower capacity in Windows. In the case of SSDs, some of the capacity is reserved for formatting and redundancy for wear leveling. These reserved areas on an SSD may occupy up to 5% of the drives storage capacity. On the Apex Series the new naming convention reflects this and the 30 is equivalent to 32GB, the 60 is equivalent to the 64GB and so on.

**Rated speeds may vary slightly dependent on the benchmark used, drivers, windows version, bios version and file size. We recommend using ATTO and PC Mark Vantage for benchmarking SSDs.