OCZ Technology and Marvell to Debut Next Generation PCI Express Z-Drive R5
Subject: Storage | January 6, 2012 - 03:27 PM | Jeremy Hellstrom
Tagged: CES, z-drive r5, PCIe SSD, ocz
SAN JOSE, CA - Jan. 6, 2012 - OCZ Technology Group, Inc. (Nasdaq:OCZ), a leading provider of high-performance solid-state drives (SSDs) for computing devices and systems, and Marvell (Nasdaq:MRVL), a worldwide leader in integrated silicon solutions, today unveiled the industry's fastest and most versatile PCI Express (PCIe) storage system, the Z-Drive R5. The increased performance, reliability, and endurance of the Z-Drive R5 is designed to take PCIe-based solid state storage to the next level for enterprise environments.
The Z-Drive R5 features a jointly developed "Kilimanjaro" OCZ and Marvell native PCIe to NAND flash controller platform, allowing for completely scalable performance and redundancy while eliminating the need for a separate storage controller, thus reducing the cost to deploy high performance solid state storage systems in the data center.
The native PCIe Z-Drive R5 offers an intelligent, hardware-meets-software managed solution designed to dramatically accelerate database, enterprise, and virtualization applications. Combining high-performance architecture with OCZ managed software, the Z-Drive R5 provides second-to-none performance, flexibility, durability, and enhanced reliability features, allowing datacenters to rely on a PCIe-based SSD as their primary Tier 0/1 storage solution and a viable end-to-end SAN replacement.
The Z-Drive R5 is ideal for demanding computing environments and features:
- Incredible bandwidth capabilities and maximum transactional performance
- High capacities up to 12TB
- Ideal for all enterprise data types with both compressible and non-compressible files as well as large data sets
- Complete storage subsystem management with OCZ Virtualized Controller Architecture 3.0 software functions
- Compatible with VMware ESXi and ESX, Linux, Windows Server 2008, and OS X to support a wide range of systems and servers
- Complete power fail protection option for maximum data integrity
- Full height and half height sizes, ideal for space constrained 1U servers and multi-node rackmount servers - MLC, eMLC, and SLC NAND Flash options
"We are continually pushing the envelope to deliver innovative PCIe SSDs to address challenges that our clients face when processing and managing ever growing amounts of complex data sets," said Ryan Petersen, CEO of OCZ Technology. "The Z-Drive R5, leverages the powerful Kilimanjaro platform to deliver superior performance, greater capacity, and an enhanced hardware and software feature-set that is unmatched in the industry. This best-of-breed next generation native solution enables clients to eliminate I/O bottlenecks for even the most data intensive server and enterprise storage applications."
"Marvell is excited to work with OCZ on this native PCIe to NAND flash controller platform, based on our 88NV9145 silicon," said Alan Armstrong, vice president of Marketing for the Storage Business Group at Marvell Semiconductor, Inc. "We believe the PCIe SSD market will rapidly shift to a native PCIe to NAND architecture, and the Kilimanjaro platform represents OCZ and Marvell's strong collaboration in bringing this highly scalable architecture to market."
PC Perspective's CES 2012 coverage is sponsored by MSI Computer.
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Podcast #182 - Intel Core i7-3930K, AMD 7000 Series rumors, a new low price SSD from OCZ and more!
Subject: Editorial | December 15, 2011 - 01:57 PM | Ken Addison
Tagged: ssd, podcast, ocz, nvidia, macbook pro, Intel, hdd, gigabyte, dell, apple, amd
PC Perspective Podcast #182 - 12/15/2011
Join us this week as we talk about the Intel Core i7-3930K, AMD 7000 Series rumors, a new low price SSD from OCZ and more!
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- 0:00:32 Introduction
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- 0:02:54 Dell Inspiron 14z Notebook Review: A Portable Workhorse
- 0:03:57 Gigabyte E350N-USB3 Fusion Mini ITX Motherboard Review
- 0:08:12 Video Perspective: Antec Eleven Hundred Case Review
- 0:12:20 Intel Core i7-3930K Sandy Bridge-E Processor
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- 0:24:15 Some Details About AMD’s 7000 Series Graphics Cards Leak To Internet
- 0:27:00 Bad for reviewers, great for gamers ... AMD will allow non-reference Tahiti graphics cards
- 0:32:10 How much of PCI-E 3.0 is just marketing speak right now
- 0:36:05 OCZ Technology Petrol SATA 6Gbps SSDs Reduce SSD Deployment Costs by Thirty Percent (Hynix flash)
- 0:42:30 Two Catalysts from AMD; 11.12 and a highly recommended preview version of 12.1
- 0:45:05 Intel Scales Back Sales Outlook Due To Hard Drive Shortage
- 0:50:10 Apple May Bring High Pixel Density Displays To MacBook Pro Notebooks
- 0:57:56 Voicemail - 3d gaming, special graphics card, what games, etc?
- 1:03:54 Voicemail - SSDs - SF drive and Gaming
- 1:07:12 Hardware / Software Pick of the Week
- Ryan: 4GB to 8GB of memory - do it!!
- Jeremy: How have I never thought of this? Also, the 3930K since it proved to be about 95%+ of the performance for about 60% of the cost ... if you can find it
- Josh: You Monster!
- Allyn: Cheap SSD's for the holidays, do it!
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- Closing
OCZ Technology Petrol SATA 6Gbps SSDs Reduce SSD Deployment Costs by Thirty Percent
Subject: Storage | December 13, 2011 - 01:02 PM | Jeremy Hellstrom
Tagged: ssd, sata 6Gbs, petrol, ocz
SAN JOSE, CA - Dec. 13, 2011 - OCZ Technology Group, Inc. (Nasdaq:OCZ), a leading provider of high-performance solid-state drives (SSDs), today launched the Indilinx Everest-based Petrol SSD Series. The Petrol Series enables further adoption of SSDs in cost-sensitive applications, while taking advantage of real world performance and complete feature set of the Indilinx Everest platform.
"Until today, SSD adoption has been limited to high performance applications due to the high cost of SSDs in relation to slower rotating discs, and we are proud to once again close the gap in pricing without sacrificing durability," said Ryan Petersen, CEO of OCZ Technology. "The new Petrol Series showcases the flexibility of the Indilinx Everest platform and NDurance™ Technology, allowing OCZ to deliver the benefits of SSDs to a wide new set of applications while retaining the superior real world performance and reduced latency that separate Everest-based SSDs from our competitors."
The OCZ Petrol Series delivers bandwidth up to 400MB/s and 35,000 IOPS, and is optimized for the complete spectrum of file types and sizes. Additionally, advanced features unique to Indilinx, such as proprietary page mapping algorithms, allow for steady mixed-workload performance, and innovative latency reduction technology enables superior access times as low as 0.06ms. Petrol ensures the most consistent and reliable performance as well as minimized performance degradation even after the drive's storage capacity is highly utilized.
The OCZ Petrol SSD Series will be available in models ranging from 64GB-512GB capacities throughout OCZ's global channel in the coming weeks.
High Octane drives from OCZ
Subject: Storage | December 12, 2011 - 02:14 PM | Jeremy Hellstrom
Tagged: ocz, Octane, Octane 512GB, Indilinx Everest, Indilinx Barefoot, ssd, sata 6Gbs
As has been covered on the front page before, OCZ is making their new Octane lineup of SSDs a little confusing for the enthusiast. If you are not careful you can end up with the non-SATA 6Gbs S2 model. The new Octane series does offer an advantage to those using non-compressible data, the Indilinx controller does not do the same compression technique which SandForce uses which will make the performance of this drive consistent regardless of the data being manipulated. As you might expect Legit Reviews testing does see the top speeds of the new Octane lagging behind SandForce based drives in some cases but the overall performance is neck and neck with Intel as they also do not compress data. Check out the full review to see a return to Indilinx and a renewal of competition for SandForce controllers.
"It's interesting to see how OCZ is marketing these Octane new Solid State Drives. They are 'Indilinx infused' vesrus 'SandForce driven'. Indilinx drives have nDurance technology while SandForce has DuraClass technology. I can't help but be reminded of the movie Coming To America where Cleo McDowell comments on his feud with McDonald's: "Look... me and the McDonald's people got this little misunderstanding. See, they're McDonald's... I'm McDowell's. They got the Golden Arches, mine is the Golden Arcs. They got the Big Mac, I got the Big Mick. We both got two all-beef patties, special sauce, lettuce, cheese, pickles and onions, but their buns have sesame seeds. My buns have no seeds..."
Here are some more Storage reviews from around the web:
- Corsair Force GT Series 240 GB and Corsair Force 3 Series 240 GB Solid State Drives @ X-bit Labs
- Samsung 830 SATA III 6Gbps 128GB SSD @ XSReviews
- Silicon Power Velox V30 60 GB SSD @ techPowerUp
- Samsung 830 SATA3 SSD 256GB @ OC3D
- Patriot Pyro SE 120GB & 240GB Review @ OCC
- ADATA S510 120GB Solid State Drive @ kitguru
- Patriot Pyro SE Solid State Drive @ Benchmark Reviews
- SSD Components and Make Up - An SSD Primer @ The SSD Review
- Kingston Earth Angel USB Drive @ HardwareBistro
- SilverStone RVS02 SATA Enclosure @ Phoronix
- G-Technology G-DRIVE Mobile HDD @ Tweaktown
- QNAP TurboNAS TS-419P II NAS Server Review @ Real World Labs
- Synology DS212 NAS Review @ Tech-Reviews
- Cyberlink Power2Go Review @ Hi Tech Legion
Careful which model of OCZ Octane you pick up
Subject: Storage | December 6, 2011 - 02:47 PM | Jeremy Hellstrom
Tagged: Octane, ssd, sata 6Gps, ocz, Octane 512GB, Indilinx Everest
If you are looking at OCZ SSDs and are considering the Octane line, please bear in mind that the S2 model which is selling for less than the non-S2 model is a SATA 3Gbp/s drive not a new 6Gb/s capable drive. The testing done at The Tech Report was on the 6Gbp/s model and they compared this Indilinx Everest powered SSD against a variety of competing SSDs. The drive comes with a 3 year warranty and comes in 128GB, 256GB, the 512GB model The Tech Report reviewed as well as a 1TB model which will cost a pretty penny. If you do choose a smaller drive, remember that the reduced channel count will make the drive perform more slowly than the larger models.
"OCZ bought SSD controller maker Indilinx earlier this year, and the first product of that acquisition is now out. Join us for a look at the Octane SSD and its new Everest controller."
Here are some more Storage reviews from around the web:
- OCZ RevoDrive 3 X2 240 GB Review @ OCC
- Patriot Pyro SE 120GB @ Tweaktown
- Intel SSD 520 Series 'Sandforce Driven' SSD Close To Release @ The SSD Review
- Crucial m4 256GB SATA 6Gbit/s SSD Review @ Techgage
- OCZ RevoDrive 3 PCI-Express SSD Review @ OCIA
- Kingston HyperX 240GB Solid State Drive Review @ ThinkComputers
- Samsung 830 Series 512GB SSD @ kitguru
- NVELO Dataplex SSD Cache Tested With 7 mSATA SSDS @ The SSD Review
- Seagate 750GB Momentus XT Solid State Hybrid Drive Review @ PCSTATS
- Seagate Momentus XT 750GB Gen 2 (ST750LX003) @ Bjorn3D
- Silverstone Treasure TS04 2.5" USB 3.0 Drive @ circuitREMIX
- SilverStone Raven RVS02 External USB 3.0 HDD / SSD Enclosure Review @ Legit Reviews
- Synology DiskStation DS212j and DS212+ @ Legion Hardware
- QNAP TS-419P II NAS Network Storage Server @ Benchmark Reviews
- Synology DiskStation DS212j NAS Server Review @ Real World Labs
- Increase RAID Rebuild / rsync Performance for QNAP NAS @ Computing on Demand
- IOCELL NetDISK 351UNE Network Storage Device @ Benchmark Reviews
- Silicon Power Diamond D05 750GB USB 3.0 @ techPowerUp
Introduction
Back in 2006, storage tech talk was intermittently buzzy with a few different innovations. One was wrapped around the pending release of Windows Vista, particularly two bullets on its feature list: ReadyBoost and ReadyDrive. In parallel with all of the Ready_____ talk, many tech pundits asked why it would be necessary to have the flash talk to Windows through special drivers. Why couldn't the flash memory just act like a larger RAM cache already present on?
A prototype ReadyBoost-enabled HDD by Samsung.
The answer, which nobody was aware of at that time, was that management of flash memory was a tricky thing to do successfully. It would not be until several years later that SSD's would (mostly) beat the issues of Long Term Performance and other issues that crop up when attempting to store randomly written data onto a device that can only be erased in relatively large blocks.
ReadyDrive required a special 'Hybrid' disk drive to be connected to and recognized by Windows Vista, containing both spinning platters and flash memory. Vista would then place frequently used small files on the flash. Since flash memory has negligible access times when compared to seek times of a HDD, the drive overall would boot significantly faster. Other tasks using those cached system files also saw a benefit. While ReadyDrive looked great on paper, there were very few devices ever released that could take advantage of it. Seagate was the earliest to release such a drive, and their Momentus 5400 PSD laptop drive did not see the light of day until Vista was nearly a full year old.
Continue reading our roundup of the best hybrid storage solutions on the market today!!
Podcast #180 - NVIDIA GTX560 Ti 448 Core, OCZ Octane 512GB SSD, Battlefield 3 Laptop performance and more!
Subject: Editorial | December 1, 2011 - 04:07 PM | Ken Addison
Tagged: ssd, podcast, ocz, Octane, nvidia, Intel, battlefield 3, amd, 560ti 448
PC Perspective Podcast #180 - 12/01/2011
Join us this week as we talk about the NVIDIA GTX560 Ti 448 Core, OCZ Octane 512GB SSD, Battlefield 3 Laptop performance and more!
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- 0:01:23 Did you listen to our The Inside Perspective? Send us your feedback?
- 0:02:35 Battlefield 3 Laptop Performance Review: Road Warrior?
- 0:04:00 Video Perspective: Antec P280 Case Review
- 0:09:30 OCZ Octane 512GB SSD Full Review - Indilinx Has Returned With Everest
- 0:20:40 Amazon Kindle Fire Review: Can $200 Buy a Great Tablet?
- 0:22:30 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560 Ti 448 Core Limited Edition Graphics Card Review
- 0:31:45 This Podcast is brought to you by
MSI Computer , and their all new Sandy Bridge Motherboards!
- 0:32:45 Thermaltake Frio OCK Universal CPU Cooler Review
- 0:34:00 Seagate says hard drive industry will take a year to recover
- 0:42:20 Video Perspective: CyberPower Gamer Ultra 2098 System
- 0:44:00 Batman: Arkham City DX11 Stuttering Issue
- 0:46:00 TSMC finds its 28nm dance card a little overbooked
- 0:52:28 AMD Releasing Branded DDR3 Memory To Compliment Desktop Platforms
- 0:58:20 Gear Up with MSI: Win Intel Motherboards, GeForce Graphics Cards
- 1:01:00 Hardware / Software Pick of the Week
- Ryan: Skyrim? Level 11!
- Jeremy: Let's here it for PC Gaming
- Josh: Arkham City for $25... last Friday on Origin.
- Allyn: A possible free 50GB cloud storage investment
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- Closing
OCZ Technology Launches Talos 2 Enterprise SAS 6G Solid State Drive
Subject: Storage | November 29, 2011 - 11:52 AM | Jeremy Hellstrom
Tagged: ocz, talos 2, enterprise, ssd, sata 6Gbs
SAN JOSE, CA – November 29, 2011 - OCZ Technology Group, Inc. (Nasdaq:OCZ), a leading provider of high-performance solid-state drives (SSDs) for computing devices and systems, announces the Talos 2 Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) SSD Series, the follow-up to the high performance, high capacity Talos Series previously available only in a 3.5 inch form factor.
With capacities up to 1TB now available in a compact 2.5-inch form factor, Talos 2 offers increased I/O performance and scalability in enterprise storage environments. Talos 2 leverages OCZ Virtualized Controller Architecture 2.0 technology which implements an intelligent complex command queuing structure with unique queue balancing algorithms to provide exceptional performance. Talos 2 SSDs deliver superior random transactional performance at up to 70,000 4K IOPS and features improved mixed workload (75% read; 25% write) performance with up to 42,000 8K IOPS.
You can bet these SSDs will not be the least expensive per gigabyte on the market
Unlike many SAS SSDs, the Talos Series is dual-ported to offer superior data integrity and increased performance, along with delivering a robust enterprise feature-set including DataWrite Assurance Protection in case of sudden power loss. Talos 2 also includes the option to enable T10-DIF (Data Integrity Field), allowing for the insertion of 8 bytes of additional data during transfers to ensure complete data integrity.
“The Talos 2 SAS solid state drives expand on the original series by offering enterprise customers superior performance, reliability, and density all in a compact footprint,” said Ryan Petersen, CEO of OCZ technology Group. “The Talos 2 enterprise SSDs are optimized for the most demanding storage systems and provide clients with an easy to deploy solution that vastly improves application performance over traditional SAS based HDDs.”
To address the complete spectrum of applications, Talos 2 SSDs are available in 100GB to 1TB capacities, in MLC, eMLC, and SLC NAND configurations. OCZ is now sampling Talos 2 to strategic customers and the drives will be made available to SMB and enterprise clients through OCZ's global business-to-business channel.
OCZ's new Indilinx powered Octane SSD
Subject: Storage | November 24, 2011 - 05:57 PM | Jeremy Hellstrom
Tagged: ssd, sata 6Gbs, sata, ocz, Octane, Indilinx, everest
OCZ's new Octane SATA 3 SSDs will be available in sizes up to 1TB, though you can expect to pay a pretty penny for it; not that a 1TB HDD is inexpensive right now. It uses a pair of new Indilinx controllers and sports 512MB of SYNC DDR3 SDRAM to help those controllers work to peak effectiveness. It uses OCZ's proprietary NDurance technology to add to the longevity of the drive, a topic near and dear to the SSD enthusiasts heart even if we have yet to see significant failure rates; though certainly the decrease in performance early SSDs showed is both a concern and very much real. SSD Review had no qualms handing it a Top Value award at the end of their review.
You can also catch Al's review of this same drive at the top of our page.
"Our review today will be a long awaited look at the OCZ Octane 6Gbps 512GB SSD. Eight months ago, OCZ bought Indilinx with full intention of spreading their wings in the development of their own proprietary controller based on the Indlinx Everest design. OCZ has spoken of higher incompressible data performance, quicker disk access as well as better sustained write performance in a consumer driven SSD that will be immediately available in capacities up to 1TB."
Here are some more Storage reviews from around the web:
- OCZ Octane 512GB SATA III SSD Launch Review @ HardwareHeaven
- OCZ Technology Octane 512GB @ Tweaktown
- Patriot Pyro SE 120GB Solid State Drive Review @ eTeknix
- OCZ Synapse Cache SSD 64GB Review @ Real World Labs
- Samsung 470 Series 256 GB SSD @ Kitguru
- Corsair Performance pro SATA 3 256GB SSD Review @ The SSD Review
- ADATA S511 240GB @ Legion Hardware
- Patriot Pyro SE 240GB & Wildfire 240GB @ kitguru
- ADATA 16GB S102 USB 3.0 @ Funkykit
- Kingston DataTraveler HyperX 3.0 64 GB @ Kitguru
- LaCie 5Big Network 2 Professional 5-bay RAID Server @ TechwareLabs
- QNAP TS-219 PII @ Bjorn3D
- Samsung MB-MS8GA 8GB microSDHC Card Review @ Tech-Reviews
- Understanding Wireless Storage: Kingston Wi-Drive and Seagate GoFlex Satellite @ AnandTech
Introduction, Specifications, and Packaging
Introduction
A few months back, OCZ acquired Indilinx. Ever since, we've been wondering if the next generation Indilinx offering could stand up to the competition, who has made leaps and bounds since the first generation SSD controllers were released.
Specifications
- 128GB Max Performance
- 256GB Max Performance
- 512GB Max Performance
- 1TB Max Performance
Here's a basic block diagram of the new Everest controller from Indilinx. All of the usual bits are present, of particular note being the ability to drive 8 channels, with each channel rated at 4-way. This should mean an Everest could theoretically drive 32 flash chips.
Continue reading our review of OCZ's new Octane Indilinx Everest 512GB SSD!
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