OCZ Announces New Z-Drive R4 PCI Express SSDs

OCZ Technology has officially announced that it will soon be releasing its next generation of high performance Z-Drive R4 PCI-E Solid State Drive. Information was released on this drive during a conference call which took place on August 2nd 2011.

According to OCZ's press release--“Ryan Petersen, CEO, will provide an overview of the evolving market for PCIe based SSDs as well as unveil the company's newest enterprise-class PCIe storage solution, the Z-Drive R4.”

OCZ first presented the PCI Express SSD at Computex 2011, where it demonstrated a server running multiple Z-Drive R4 SSDs connected in a RAID 0 mode, which were able to achieve more than 1 million IOPS in an Iometer 4KB random read test .There will be two versions of this drive, the C Series and the R series.

The C Series features less over provisioning space and lacks any sort of power loss protection, while the R Series has more NAND put aside as spare space as well as a series of polymer capacitors, for enhanced data protection. Both the C and R series drives are powered by eight SandForce SF-2281 controllers, which are run in an internal RAID-0 mode, and use a PCI Express x8 interface to communicate with the rest of the system.

Storage capacities for these drives range from 460GB to 3.84TB for the C-series drives and between 800GB and 3.2TB for R-series SSDs.

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