OCZ plans 1.2GB / sec write speed SSD

R088ieS86 · 15 Jan 2010 at 11:23

If you think that 200 or even 300MB/sec write speed is great, what if we tell you that OCZ plans to ship the SSD drive that can achieve 1.3GB/sec (1300MB/s) read and 1.2GB/sec (1200MB/sec) write speed. The company has shown off a prototype PCIe Z e88 drive and it should start shipping this product to enterprise market in the next few months.

The size varies from 512MB all the way to 2TB. Of course there will be a 1TB version. The good thing is that 512GB version will be easily upgradeable as you have memory banks similar to SODIMMs and it will be really easy to expand you storage.

This product aims for the super demanding enterprise market and 2TB will probably land at $7000 price, but this is just preliminary price. If the memory speed is crucial for your business and if you can afford it, this is probably the fastest drive that will be available.This is far more faster version of Z drive, at least

This is just a start and we are sure it will get even faster in the next few months.

Incredible, whats the betting these come out around £1500 for the base 512GB model! those speeds would send the windows rating system crazy!!

daz · 15 Jan 2010 at 12:36

I would imagine the drive would basically be lots of flash coupled with a very big DRAM cache...?

R088ieS86 · 15 Jan 2010 at 12:39

forgive me:
http://www.fudzilla.com/content/view/17244/1/

shadowscotland · 15 Jan 2010 at 13:25

It an upgradeable OCZ Z-Drive.
with is basically multipul ssd and a RAID card in one package

R088ieS86 · 15 Jan 2010 at 13:29

could you use one to boot from?

robmagee · 16 Jan 2010 at 11:27

Last Z-drive was bootable so I assume so

tomos · 16 Jan 2010 at 11:51

isn't SATA3 limited to under 600MB / sec? or does this take more than 1 sata port?

Daegan · 16 Jan 2010 at 11:58

tomos said:
isn't SATA3 limited to under 600MB / sec? or does this take more than 1 sata port?

Doesn't use SATA, it's a PCIe card.

bulldog147 · 16 Jan 2010 at 14:26

R088ieS86 said:
Incredible, whats the betting these come out around £1500 for the base 512GB model! those speeds would send the windows rating system crazy!!

I will not spend on silly £1500 for just 1 SSD (lifespan won't be last longer)

daz · 16 Jan 2010 at 16:17

bulldog147 said:
I will not spend on silly £1500 for just 1 SSD (lifespan won't be last longer)

You're not the target market though...

These will primarily be used for database applications or anything else requiring massively high I/O.

robmagee · 16 Jan 2010 at 20:28

Cant see databases using this stuff, not a brand they can trust yet, intel are preety much king there

Ducky Spud · 16 Jan 2010 at 20:43

Your saying OCZ arent a brand you can trust? Theyre a pretty big brand one one of the leaders with SSD's!

robmagee · 16 Jan 2010 at 21:40

No, no, i love my ocz vertexs, its just databases for big componys are so important I am not sure they would go for such a small company like ocz when there a bermoths like intel ready to cater for them, plus the will be set up manly for sata and sas