OCZ Vertex 4, the PCIe Z-Drive R5, the "Kilimanjaro"
platfotm along with the 3.5" Chiron series of SSDs are
among the new products showcased by OCZ Technology at
this year's CeBIT show in Grermany.
The new Vertex 4 series of SSDs is based on the company's
Indilinx Everest 2 SATA 6Gb/s platform and promise
performance of 500MB/s for both read and write, along
with 90,000 IOPS. OCZ will offer 2.5 inch drives with
capacities up to 2TB in the Q2 2012.
OCZ's "Kilimanjaro" Platform was first announced at
Storage Visions 2012 and CES 2012. OCZ and Marvell joined
forces to develop the platform, promising to offer
unparalleled performance. It includes a modularly
scalable native PCIe SSD controller paired with a
combination of software and hardware (OCZ Virtualized
Controller Architecture 3.0), designed for complete
spectrum of enterprise-class applications such as OLTP
database, webservers, virtualization, big-data and
collaboration.
The platform will be available in a range of form
factors: PCI Express full height and half height with
up to 2.5 Million IOPS and 7GB/s; 2.5-inch with up to
100K IOPS and 1GB/s; and Mini PCIe with up to 50K IOPS
and 500MB/s.
First announced at Storage Visions 2012 and CES 2012, the
Z-Drive R5 is a PCI Express Gen. 3 x16 SSD. It is based
on the jointly developed "Kilimanjaro" OCZ and Marvell
native PCIe-to-NAND flash controller platform and
accordding to OCZ, it is the industry's fastest PCI
Express storage system (3.5 million IOPs 7GB/s). The
series eliminates the need for a separate storage
controller, reducing the cost to deploy high performance
SSDs the data center, and it is
compatible with VMware ESXi and ESX, Linux, Windows
Server 2008, and OS X to support a wide range of systems
and servers.
Available in capacities of up to 12TB, the series will be
available in MLC, eMLC, and SLC NAND flash options and
will come complete with power fail protection option for
maximum data integrity.
First announced at Storage Visions 2012 and CES 2012, the
Chiron Series of SATA SSDs offer capacities of up to
4TB in a 3.5" form factor. The SSDs enable mass SSD
storage and is capable of deploying up to 96TB of storage
in a 4U rackmount server chassis. Based on the
Indilinx processor technology, the SSDs offer
performance of up to 560MB/s and 100,000 IOPs.
The "Everest with TLC" series was first announced Needham
5th Annual HDD & Memory Conference and shown at CES 2012.
It packs SSD processor technology paired with TLC NAND
Flash (Triple-Level Cell), lowering the cost by
30% comapred to traditional MLC SSDs. The SSDs are
suited to client compute platforms such as tablets,
laptops, desktops, and workstations and promise to offer
up to 500MB/s and 30K IOPS.
The "æonDrive DRAM SSD" or unlimited endurance cycle SSD
provides unlimited drive life in the most write intensive
applications. Its proprietary controller technology
utilizes low cost commodity DRAM as Pseudo-Nonvolatile
memory. Performance figures quoted by OCZ include
up to 140,000 4K IOPS and 540,000 512 Byte IOPS along
with an ultra-low latency (>20 μs). The SSDs are aimed at
critical data transactions (e.g., financial and
derivatives trading platforms) and caching applications.
It will be available in capacities of up to 64GB and come
with a native 6Gb/s SAS interface.
The "Lightfoot" series of portable SSDs for enthusiasts
feature Intel Thunderbolt interface (up to 750MB/s),
meaning that you will be able to transfer a full-length
HD movie in less than 30 seconds! Available in
capacities of 128GB, 256GB, and 512GB, it would cost you
$2 per GB of storage.
At OCZ's booth at CeBIT there is also on display the
recently launched Z-Drive R4 CloudServ PCI3 SSDs, with
performance of up to 6.5GB/s and over 1.4 million IOPS.
The drives offer up to 16TB of storage and are available
with MLC, eMLC, or SLC. Other featues include
OCZ Virtualized Controller Architecture 2.0 with 2 or 4
OCZ SuperScale Accelerators, high endurance for
enterprise applications and complete power fail
protection & drive-level recovery.