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I’m starting to think maybe Gadgetell should get into the netbook business.  Why not?  It seems everyone else is doing it.  Granted, all those companies have experience in manufacturing computers or components prior to getting into the netbook arena, but it can’t be that hard.  Just get some Intel Atom chips, some motherboards, a bunch of 1 GB RAM sticks, throw in a small 1.8” HDD or SSD and put it all in a 10” screen-sized shell.  Or we could just leave that to OCZ, the memory manufacturer who just announced it’s releasing a netbook with up to 250GB HDD or SSD, which is actually a bit impressive.

The real news with OCZ at CeBIT isn’t its new Ubuntu or XP LED backlit “Neutrino” netbook, it’s actually its 1TB SSD.  Before you get too excited, you should know that OCZ isn’t ready to talk anything about release or pricing for the drive yet.  But, there’s no reason to drool over the specs of the thing.  The SSD is called the Z drive, and connects via PCIe with a hardware based RAID controller and 256 local cache.  Oh yeah, it also has a read speed of 600Mbps and a write speed of 500Mbps.  So yeah, pretty fast for a 1TB SSD.

The reason why OCZ is just showing it off at the moment is because the company is trying to find a way to cool the drive.  I suppose it runs too hot to be used normally, and requires an entirely different way of cooling, or it just needs to be tweaked a bit.  Either way, a 1TB SSD?  Sign me up for that.

Read [Electronista]