OCZ PCIe 3.0 SSD Up to 16TB

OCZ Technology Group, Inc. debuts new SSD solutions.

"CES represents a great opportunity for us to showcase our latest storage technology, and highlight next generation cloud-optimized solid state solutions that address today’s enterprise needs," said Ryan Petersen, CEO of OCZ Technology. "Once again we have been able to leverage our increased R&D strength and our understanding of client needs to change the face of solid state storage and deliver innovative new solutions far ahead of our competitors, demonstrating technology leadership across all product categories."

OCZ introduced next generation solutions for the enterprise market.

Products to be unveiled at CES include:

• Z-Drive R5 – Utilizing the OCZ and Marvell co-developed Kilimanjaro platform, the fifth generation Z-Drive R5 is designed to accelerate ‘big data’. As the world’s first PCIe x16 Gen 3 SSD, which supports up to 16GB/s of total bandwidth, the R5 will features performance that reaches up to an 2.52 million IOPS and 7.2GB/s sequential transfers per card, with unlimited scalability and performance aggregation capability. With optional power fail protection the R5 will be available in form factors including full height, half height, and 2.5-inch PCIe.
• Indilinx Everest 2 –  The SATA 3.0-based third generation Indilinx controller is designed for I/O-intensive workloads in a range of applications, supporting sequential speeds of up to 550MB/s, and up to 105,000 random read and 90,000 Random Write IOPS with the 2xnm flash technology. The Everest 2 platform supports up to 2TB capacity in a 2.5-inch form factor.
• Z-Drive R4 CloudServ RM1616 – Withg 16TB of storage on a single PCIe card, the Z-Drive R4 CloudServ RM1616 is an addition to the R4 Series. With performance of up to 6.5GB/s and over 1.4 million IOPS, the Z-Drive R4 CloudServ’s level of concentrated performance and capacity enables system architects to design more productive infrastructures while lowering operating costs associated with hard drive technology.
• Chiron 4TB SSD – The fastest and highest capacity SATA SSD for the enterprise, the Chiron Series provides 4TB in a 3.5-inch form factor. With performance exceeding SATA 3.0 bus capabilities, Chiron delivers speeds above 560MB/s and 100,000 IOPS. Eliminating the need for high capacity HDDs as anything other than backup devices, the Chiron Series enables mass SSD storage and is capable of deploying up to 96TB of storage in a 4U rackmount server chassis.

OCZ’s enterprise showcased demonstrations will include an IBM System x3650 M3 highlighting the performance potential of the new Z-Drive R5 PCIe Gen 3 in a Linux server environment, as well as a HP ProLiant DL370 G6 server equipped with two Z-Drive R4 RM1616s delivering 1,400,000 IOPS per card with Windows Server 2008. In addition, drives based on the next-generation Indilinx Everest 2 platform ware demonstrated, as well as a prototype of Lightfoot, an external Intel Thunderbolt SSD.