OCZ Summit Series SSD previewed

PC Perspective had the opportunity to test the performance of an early engineering sample of OCZ's upcoming series of Summit solid state disks which are based on a brand new controller from Samsung. The unit the reviewer got in his hands featured 250GB of MLC flash memory and 64MB of on-board cache to boost the performance of the drive. You can read the report over here.

In HD Tach the drive shows average read speeds of 208.4MB/s and average write speeds of 172.1MB/s. The read speed is a bit slower than the Intel X25-M but the write speed is significantly faster. The OCZ Summit SSD series is expected to be available next month in 60GB, 120GB and 250GB capacities for around $199, $399, and $829, respectively.