OCZ to Unveil PCIe-Based Vector SSDs

OCZ Technology Group, Inc. will demonstrate a pre-production version of its Vector SSD Series for PCIe interfaces at the Consumer Electronics Show 2013, Las Vegas, NE.

In addition, it will present its portfolio of enterprise and consumer SSDs, as well as enterprise software used to cache, virtualize or accelerate key applications and associated data.

Driven by its Indilinx Barefoot 3 controller, which has received accolades for performance, enhanced reliability/endurance, and differentiated features, the PCIe-based Vector SSD Series has improved IOPS burst performance and delivers superior ‘real-world’ sustained performance regardless of whether the data streams are in compressed or uncompressed formats.

Residing directly on the PCIe bus, this addition to the Vector Series provides lower latency to data, faster file transfers and boot-ups, expanded storage capacities, and a quicker, more responsive experience over the already fast SATA III-based Vector SSDs. The combination of enhanced bandwidth and higher capacities make the Vector PCIe SSD Series ideal for power users, content creation and workstation applications.

The series supports performance Windows-based laptops, desktops and workstations with 4 lanes of PCIe Gen 2 in full-height and half-height  formats. Its suite of flash management tools deliver drive endurance and data reliability in support of 100GB host writes per day for 5 years ensuring that PCIe SSDs can be reliably used in a range of HPC environments over an extended lifetime.

In addition to the Vector PCIe SSD demonstration, OCZ will showcase a range of client and enterprise solid-state storage solutions at this year’s CES.

Client storage solutions:

• Vector SSD Series: SATA III-based drives for high-performance personal computing applications
• Vertex 4 SSD Series: SATA III-based drives for mainstream computing and gaming applications

Enterprise storage solutions:

• Deneva 2 SSD Series: SATA III-based drives for high-performance enterprise applications
• Talos 2 SSD Series: SAS-based drives for high-performance enterprise applications
• Z-Drive R4 PCIe Series: PCIe-based drives for high-performance enterprise applications
• VXL 1.2 Software: PCIe-based cache and virtualization software for VMware hypervisors
• LXL 1.0 Software (in beta development): Low latency caching solution for Linux-based physical and virtual environments in support of OCZ’s enterprise SSD portfolio