Toshiba America Electronic Components today announced a new line of SSDs under its OCZ brand, and those drive prices are comparable to some of the lowest in the industry based on similar technology.

The new OCZ VX500 SSD line is targeted at mainstream desktop and notebook users who may want to upgrade from the hard disk drive (HDD) that came with their machine to an SSD with better performance.

The VX500 series is a 2.5-in form factor, 7mm thick SSD based on multi-level cell (MLC) NAND flash, which stores two bits per cell versus the three bits per cell found in triple-level (TLC) flash. The drive uses the Serial ATA (SATA) 6 Gbit/s interface.

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