OCZ showed off three unannounced enterprise storage solutions, along with a portable external SSD at Storage Visions. The showcase includes four high-speed connection types, including PCIe with the new Z-Drive R4 CloudServ, SAS 6.0Gb/s with the DRAM-powered æonDriv, SATA 6.0Gb/s with the new Everest-powered Chiron SSD, and even a consumer-targeted Lightfoot external SSD utilizing Intel’s Thunderbolt.
OCZ showed off three unannounced enterprise storage solutions, along with a portable external SSD at Storage Visions. The showcase includes four high-speed connection types, including PCIe with the new Z-Drive R4 CloudServ, SAS 6.0Gb/s with the DRAM-powered æonDriv, SATA 6.0Gb/s with the new Everest-powered Chiron SSD, and even a consumer-targeted Lightfoot external SSD utilizing Intel’s Thunderbolt.
OCZ Lightfoot Portable SSD
Lightfoot is an external SSD that leverage’s Intel’s Thunderbolt interface which is capable of up to 750 MB/s transfer speeds. Lightfoot will be available in 128GB, 256GB, 512GB and 1TB capacities. Release date and pricing isn’t immediately available.
OCZ Z-Drive R4 CloudServ
The CloudServ uses SandForce’s latest SSD processor, the SF-2481, which is designed just for use in enterprise cloud computing environments. The R4 CloudServ offers up to 16TB of solid state storage on a single PCIe card. On the performance front this translates to throughput speeds of up to 6.5 GB/s and over 1.4 million IOPS. Other highlights include OCZ’s VCA 2.0, two SuperScale accelerators and low CPU and DRAM usage.
OCZ Chiron SSD
The OCZ Chiron is a 3.5" enterprise grade SSD that offers capacity points up to 4TB with a SATA interface, a new capacity record for 3.5" SSDs. In practical terms, this means up to 96GB of SSD storage in a 4U rackmount server. Chiron uses an Indilinx processor to generate throughput of 560 MB/s and 100,000 IOPS.
OCZ æonDrive
The æonDrive is a drive that uses DRAM as NV memory instead of NAND, making endurance a non-issue. The æonDrive uses a SAS 6Gb/s interface to deliver ultra-low latency speeds and throughput of 140,000 4K IOPS and in excess of 500,000 512b IOPS. This drive is aimed at financial and high transactional type uses.
OCZ Z-Drive R5
The Z-Drive R5 that was announced January 6th was finally spotted in the wild.
New OCZ mSATA
The Marvell 88NV9145 was shown off in an mSATA solution from OCZ as well, no word was given if a mSATA or mini-PCIe interface was used. the primary difference would be if the drive would interact with standard SATA protocol or if it was PCI-Express that the slot can support as well.
