OCZ Talos 2 Enterprise 6Gb SAS SSDs

OCZ Technology Group, Inc. announces the Talos 2 SAS SSD Series, the follow-up to the 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 queue balancing algorithms to provide performance. Talos 2 SSDs deliver 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.

Unlike many SAS SSDs, the Talos Series is dual-ported to offer data integrity and increased performance, along with delivering an 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 data integrity.

"The Talos 2 SAS SSDs 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."

Talos 2 SSDs are available in 100GB to 1TB capacities, in MLC, eMLC, and SLC NAND configurations.

OCZ is 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.