"While solid state drives offer exceptional performance, the high cost of ownership has been a barrier for many consumers," according to Eugene Change, OCZ VP of Product Development.  "It has always been our goal to make quality SSD drives affordable to the complete range of customers.  By making use of the proven Indilinx controller coupled new flash technology, OCZ is excited to introduce the Solid 2 that delivers increased reliability and performance over competing traditional and solid state solutions at a price point that is truly within reach of mainstream consumers."

The OCZ Solid 2 Series will support storage capacities from 64GB to 128GB. OCZ is aiming the new product towards laptop owners looking to upgrade their storage and anyone building a RAID array for a home or work network.

The OCZ Solid 2 Series offers 125MB/s read and 100MB/s write speeds, with 64MB of onboard cache for each drive, the company said in a press release.

Storage companies and other tech-related businesses have flooded the SSD market, realizing that even though SSDs are still expensive at the moment, the benefits compared to hard disk drives will eventually cause a migration to the faster, more reliable technology.  Joining in the fray alongside OCZ are Kingston, Corsair, Super Talent, Western Digital, Seagate, Samsung, and Intel -- the companies are investing heavily into the emerging technology that offers lower energy consumption, faster transfer speeds, and no moving parts.

Manufacturers are also under heavy pressure to lower prices -- which is happening -- but it's becoming increasingly difficult to turn a profit as prices are lowered.