OCZ Storage Solutions today announced the availability the new Z-Drive 4500 PCIe series, an update to the successful Z-Drive R4. The Z-Drive 4500 uses 19nm Toshiba MLC NAND flash and is available in 800GB, 1.6TB, and 3.2TB. The Z-Drive 4500 integrates with OCZ’s new Windows Accelerator (WXL) Software, a flash management and caching solution for Microsoft Windows Server applications that can make the drive available as a local flash volume, a flash cache for HDD volumes, or both.
OCZ Storage Solutions today announced the availability the new Z-Drive 4500 PCIe series, an update to the successful Z-Drive R4. The Z-Drive 4500 uses 19nm Toshiba MLC NAND flash and is available in 800GB, 1.6TB, and 3.2TB. The Z-Drive 4500 integrates with OCZ’s new Windows Accelerator (WXL) Software, a flash management and caching solution for Microsoft Windows Server applications that can make the drive available as a local flash volume, a flash cache for HDD volumes, or both.
Not long after Toshiba completed its acquisition of OCZ, the Z-Drive 4500 release reflects a continued commitment to established OCZ enterprise storage architectures, including the fruits of OCZ’s prior partnership with Toshiba’s NAND division, rather than products of the new relationship. The Z-Drive R4 provided best price-to-performance in its class upon the R4's debut 2011 and has been a valuable and flexible enterprise product line for OCZ.
The Z-Drive 4500 is driven by OCZ’s Virtualized Controller Architecture (VCA) and LSI SandForce SF-2582 processors. According to the company’s SNIA benchmarks, the 3.2TB Z-Drive 4500 reached random 4K block read throughput of up to 252,000 input/output operations per second (IOPS) and random 4K block write throughput of 76,000 IOPS. Platform features include an internal storage controller to reduce host overhead, TRIM support, SMART monitoring, and the ability to serve as a bootable drive. The Z-Drive 4500 also features power loss data protection for in-flight write operations end-to-end data path protection for data integrity.
OCZ Z-Drive 4500 Specifications
- Usable Capacities (IDEMA): 800GB / 1600GB / 3200GB
- NAND Components: Multi-Level Cell (MLC)
- Interface: PCIe Gen 2 x8
- Form Factor: Full-Height/Half-Length (FH/HL)
- Storage Controller: VCA 2.0 (Virtualized Controller Architecture)
- Dimensions (L x W x H): 126.3mm x 180.9mm x 21.6mm
- Weight: 350g
- Sustained Performance (based on ZD4RPFC8MT320-3200 model)
- Max Read: Up to 2,900 MB/s
- Max Write: Up to 2,200 MB/s
- Sustained Random 4K Reads: Up to 252,000 IOPS
- Sustained Random 4K Writes: Up to 76,000 IOPS
- Sustained Random 8K Reads: Up to 155,000 IOPS
- Sustained Random 8K Writes: Up to 31,000 IOPS
- Environmental
- Operating Temperature: 0°C ~ 55°C
- Non-Operating Temperature: -45°C ~ 85°C
- Airflow Requirements: 300LFM (Linear Feet per Minute) at 25°C, 550LFM at 40°C
- Certifications and Declarations: RoHS, FCC , CE, BSMI, C-TICK, VCCI, KCC, UL
- Reliability/Security
- Mean Time Between Failures (MTBF): 2 million hours
- Endurance Rating: Minimum of 0.68PB (800GB), 1.3PB (1600GB), 2.5PB (3200GB)
- Power Fail Protection
- End-to-end data path protection
- Read Unrecoverable Bit Error Rate (UBER): 10e17
- Data compression, Data de-duplication, and AES 128bit encryption
- Self-Monitoring, Analysis and Reporting Technology (SMART) Support with enterprise attributes
- DataSafe Recovery technology to provide data recovery in case of block failure
- Compatibility
- PCI Express x8 or x16 slot; Fully compliant with the PCI Express Electromechanical Specification Rev. 2.0, and PCI Express Base Specification Rev. 2.0
- SATA Rev. 2.6 compliant ATA feature set; ATA-8 compliant
- Operating Systems
- 32/64-bit Microsoft Windows 7, 8, 8.1
- 32/64-bit Windows Server 2008 R2, 2012, 2013 R2
- 64-bit Linux Red Hat Enterprise, Oracle & Centos 6.x
- 64-bit SLES 11 SP1-3
- 64-bit Ubuntu Server 10.04 LTS, 12.x, 13.x
- VMware ESX/ESXi 4.1, 5.x
- Power Management: Supports ATA Power Management Specification
- Power Requirements: PCIe 12V & 3.3V
- 800GB: 18.4W Idle, 20.8W Active
- 600GB: 20.3W Idle, 23.1W Active
- 1600GB: 20W Idle, 22.8W Active
- TRIM (requires OS support)
- Optimize Sustained Latency Performance (Consistent latency IO operations regardless of data entropy)
- Temperature Sensor and Throttling
- Performance aggregation across multiple cards
- Virtualized controller architecture virtualizes SSD devices into a massively parallel array
- Advanced Queue Balancing Algorithm (QBA)
- Consolidated SMART support
- Field-upgradable firmware
- 5-year warranty; Dedicated FAE support
In addition to a new chassis with improved thermal properties over the Z-Drive R4 and a rebuilt driver stack for Windows and Linux, OCZ’s new Windows Accelerator (WXL) Software adds flash management and caching for Windows Server applications with ‘out-of-band’ analysis to cache frequently accessed data while avoiding latency from processing in the data path. In virtualized environments, OCZ’s VXL virtualization software can distribute cache resources to ensure that only virtual machines which require flash performance are utilizing the local cache.
Availability
Full-Height/Half-Length (FHHL) models are available in capacities of 800GB (ZD4RPFC8MT300-0800), 1.6TB (ZD4RPFC8MT310-1600), and 3.2TB (ZD4RPFC8MT320-3200).
