Nippon Rad Selects OCZ PCIe SSD

OCZ Technology Group, Inc. announced that its Z-Drive R4 PCIe SSDs have been selected by Nippon Rad Inc., a solution provider in Japan, for their Pedicss PC platform.

As a HDD replacement for this platform, the implementation of OCZ’s PCIe flash-based solid-state cards enable faster read and write data access times, accelerated application performance, enterprise endurance and reliability, low power consumption and quiet running operations.

Nippon Rad’s Pedicss platform is a pre-configured Windows-based personal computer equipped with high-speed Z-Drive R4 PCIe solid-state storage housed in a compact cube enclosure. It is targeted for customers that require high-performance storage media in support of such enterprise applications as virtualization, database management, and big data loading. In a comparable test environment versus HDDs, Z-Drive R4 PCIe SSDs delivered read/write performance improvements in both sequential and random access operations.

"We are very pleased that our Z-Drive R4 PCIe SSDs have been selected by Nippon Rad for their next-generation Pedicss platform that uniquely combines PC capabilities with high-performance enterprise storage," said Richard Singh, CSO for OCZ. "As HDDs have physical and performance limitations that cannot keep pace with growing server workloads, the Z-Drive R4 can deliver random IOPS performance that is comparable to large SAN arrays with thousands of HDDs incorporated."

The Z-Drive R4 PCIe SSD model selected by Nippon Rad features storage capacity of 300GB in a HH format that is capable of delivering a maximum read/write throughput of 2,000 MB/s and 4K random write performance of 250,000 IOPS.