OCZ Launches 4th Generation PCIe SSDs
OCZ's new Z-Drive PCIe-based SSDs feature removable NAND modules.
OCZ Technology Group announced today its move into mass production with the fourth generation of PCIe-based solid state drives, the new Z-Drive R2 SSD series. This will actually be the second rendition of the original Z-Drive drives, adding "greater performance and design flexibility" thanks to optimized, interchangeable NAND modules--this will allow for in-field service and upgrades without the need to rip out the existing drive.
“The Z-Drive R2 is a total solution that delivers exceptional performance over a wide of range of applications due to its superior sequential performance, making it a winner in both high IOP and high-throughput environments," said Ryan Petersen, CEO of the OCZ Technology Group.
As with the previous Z-Drive, the R2 version is bootable, and offers a huge performance value with teamed up with other Z-Drive R2 drives in a RAID 0 configuration. Storage capacities range from 256GB to 2TB, however the company said that--despite price--the PCIe-based SSDs provide an actual cost savings when compared to the expense of maintaining complex HDD infrastructures.
Currently OCZ is offering three models: the Z-Drive R2 p88, the Z-Drive R2 p84, and the Z-Drive R2 m84. The R2 p88 version is the fastest drive of the bunch, offering read speeds of up to 1.3GB/s, write speeds of up to 1GB/s, and a sustained write speed of up to 550MB/s. For more information on all three models, head here.
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Such a beastly thing will probably run you the risk of bankruptcy also
Bankruptcy would be worth it tho lol
In 10 years the RAM memory will disappear, the SSD will be so fast that you won't need to buy RAM anymore, you'll run everything in the disk... Good news for Microsoft that always has big headache in Windows memory Management...
Nice stuff. Butt a raid controller + a large amount of SSD's might do thesame for less cash. (low response time from SSD's makes RAID scale up almost linear)
And you can also take advantage of the benefits of "complex HDD infrastructures", like multipath IO. (JBOD enclosures with dual uplink ports for example)
If I had to put this in a production enviroment I'd need 2 servers and atleast one of these cards in each and replicate data between them realtime. Yes it would be fast, it would also be expensive and complicate things when one box breaks down.
I'm still waiting on an (SLC) SSD with dual SAS ports myself... (OCZ, are you listening?)