OCZ Marks Turning Point in the Evolution of PCIe SSDs

Market Watch reports that OCZ Technology (NASDAQ: OCZ) has announced the release of Z-Drive Revision 4 (R4) PCI Express. The PCIe-based SSD can accelerate enterprise applications while allowing data centers to rely on a PCIe-based SSD as their primary tier one storage solution.

PCIe-based flash storage systems have the ability to bypass traditional storage overhead, reducing latencies, increasing throughput, and enabling efficient processing of massive quantities of data. A single SuperScale controller equipped Z-Drive R4 is capable of transferring up to 2800 megabytes per second (MB/s) and completing over 500,000 input-output operations per second (IOPS), while a dual SuperScale controller card reaches an astounding 5600 MB/s and 1.2 million IOPS, said OCZ Technology.

"’The demand for higher performing PCIe-attached solid state storage continues to grow, and our new Z-Drive R4 represents an increased focus from OCZ to meet the needs of its enterprise and data center clients; it also represents a turning point in the evolution of PCIe SSDs,’ said Ryan Petersen, CEO of OCZ Technology Group. ‘The Z-Drive R4 provides the best of both worlds for storage architects by merging the industry-leading feature-sets of both the pure hardware and pure software based approaches to data management, while maintaining user-configurable flexibility not found in other devices.’"

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