OCZ announced the Z-Drive R4 CloudServ PCIe SSD, with capacities topping out at 16TB. Aimed specifically at cloud computing applications, the CloudServ is able to accelerate virtualized applications and reduce operating expenses in the data center. The Z-Drive R4 CloudServ is able to drive speeds of up to 1.4 million IOPS and when combined with OCZ’s SANRAD VXL virtual acceleration caching software works as a high-performance flash-cache to accelerate VMs.
OCZ announced the Z-Drive R4 CloudServ PCIe SSD, with capacities topping out at 16TB. Aimed specifically at cloud computing applications, the CloudServ is able to accelerate virtualized applications and reduce operating expenses in the data center. The Z-Drive R4 CloudServ is able to drive speeds of up to 1.4 million IOPS and when combined with OCZ’s SANRAD VXL virtual acceleration caching software works as a high-performance flash-cache to accelerate VMs.
The Z-Drive R4 CloudServ is designed with the ever-changing cloud computing model in mind, offering a combination of high capacity and high performance in a single piece of hardware. This reduces system complexity in data centers, as well as lowers the cost in areas including maintenance, hardware failures, as well as energy consumption by offering such high performance from a concentrated package.
Leveraging their recent acquisition of SANRAD, the CloudServ also positioned with the host-based flash-caching SANRAD XVL software. OCZ gave a small demonstration of this setup with the CloudServ at CES, where they were able to significantly improve the performance of VMs hosted locally as well as remotely using the XVL software from SANRAD. The XVL software is able to dynamically allocate flash resources between VMs based on demand, as well as seamlessly migrate cache data between host systems in the event one must be taken offline, without reducing the performance to high-demand hosted applications as they shift between servers.
OCZ Z-Drive R4 CloudServ Specifications:
- Capacities: 300GB to 16TB
- NAND Components: Synchronous Mode Multi-Level Cell (MLC)
- Interface: PCI Express Gen. 2 x16
- Form Factor: OCZ SuperScale x 2
- NAND Controller: SandForce 2581 x 16
- Caching & Virtualization: Supports OCZ SANRAD VXL software
- Performance
- Read/Write Bandwidth: up to 6,000 MB/s
- Random Read/Write Operations (4kB): 800,000 IOPS
- Maximum IOPS: 1,400,000 IOPS
- Environmental
- Power Consumption: Idle: 50W; Active: 70W
- Ambient Temperature: 0°C ~ 55°C
- Operating Temperature: 0°C ~ 70°C
- Storage Temperature: -45°C ~ 85°C
- Airflow Requirement: 200 Linear Feet/Minute (LFM)
- Data Fail Recovery: Recovers data from up to one NAND flash block per NAND controller
- Power Fail Protection: DataWrite Assurance™ Technology (capacitance power back-up to ensure data hardening)
- Data Path Protection: ECC – Up to 55 bits correctable per 512-byte sector; Data path parity protection
- Data Reliability: Read Unrecoverable Bit Error Rate (UBER) 1017
- Data Encryption: 128-bit & 256-bit AES-compliant
- PCI Express: 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
- Operating Systems: Windows Vista & 7 32-bit/64-bit; Windows Server 2003 & 2008 R2 64-bit; Red Hat Enterprise Linux, CentOS, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
- Power Requirements: PCI Express 12V & 3.3V
- Dimensions (L x W x H): 230 x 98.40 x 36.95 mm (without bracket)
- Weight: 650g
- Performance Optimization: TRIM/SCSI unmap (requires OS support)
- Service & Support: 3-Year Warranty; Dedicated FAE/FSE support (includes PM/engineer support through validation cycle)
OCZ expects to start shipping the Z-Drive R4 CloudServ in the coming weeks.
