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With its desktop DDR DRAM business now dead and buried, OCZ is making good use of its additional R&D resources by cranking out solid state drives at a breakneck pace, and the company's newly announced Z-Drive Revision 4 (R4) PCI Express storage solutions offer breakneck speeds for the enterprise. They also "significantly reduce total cost of ownership in the data center," OCZ says.
These R4 Z-Drives sport OCZ's proprietary Virtualized Controller Architecture (VCA) 2.0, which we touched on here. It also features multiple SandForce SF-2000 series controllers, MLC or SLC NAND flash memory (depending on the model), and a SuperScaler controller that can pump out 2.8GB/s transfer speeds and over 500,000 random 4K write IOPS, or up to 5.6GB/s and 1.2 million IOPS with dual SuperScalers. With those kind of numbers, it's almost as though Goose and Maverick designed these drives.
As much fun as it would be to slap these into a home desktop system, the Z-Drive line is really aimed at enterprise systems and workstations in need of "efficient processing of massive quantities of data." Towards that end, OCZ offers the R4 Z-Drive series in two versions, including full height models and half height versions designed for space constrained 1U servers and multi-node rackmount servers.
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