OCZ Preps 1TB 800MBps SSD

Author Gordon Kelly
Published 10th Mar 2009
OCZ Preps 1TB 800MBps SSD
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Ok, so I expected the boundaries of SATA3 to last longer than that...

Just a day after Seagate wows us all with the ability of SATA3 (also known as 6Gbps SATA) to increased speeds to 600MBps OCZ blows this bandwidth apart with an SSD cooked up in Hades itself.


Called the 'Z-Drive' it is a completely bonkers and yet utterly brilliant idea: a one terabyte MLC-based SSD with 256MB of local cache and hardware-based RAID controller. It plugs into a PCI Express slot to eliminate any bandwidth boundaries and OCZ preliminary tests show it managing 600MBps read and 500MBps read. That said, OCZ also claims some benchmarks have seen it nudge 800MBps.

I repeat, completely bonkers and yet utterly brilliant.

Of course at this stage you cynically reply 'But it's just a concept'. Actually no, OCZ is making the dreams of the rich and famous come true by making low numbers of production units available this year.

Pricing? I'll let OCZ phrase this one: "Definitely for the high-end crowd, the Z Drive won't come cheap..."

Yep, you can't afford it.

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comment Tony Walker said on 10th March 2009

If you use a full blown hardware RAID card from the likes of Areca then similar numbers can be achieved by mere mortals apparently.

Am experimenting with a 4 x SSD (... more

comment ilovethemonkeyhead said on 10th March 2009

utilising multiple drives in a raid array will most defiantly be quicker than having one big 1TB drive. plus cheaper to produce.

comment Simon Twine said on 11th March 2009

@smc8788 I think you could get battery-backedup versions so it wasn't completely flawed.

comment Xiphias said on 12th March 2009

Specifically it's a PCI-E 8x slot, so quite a few motherboards won't fit it (you either need a spare 16x slot operating at 4x or above or a rare 8x slot).

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