OCZ to Release Fast New Octane Series

OCZ has slated themselves to release their Octane Series of SSDs, quite possibly the fastest available consumer devices on the market, clocked at 560MB/s Down, 400MB/s Up. What Separates these Drives is that they are available in a wide variety of capacities, starting at 128GB, 256GB, 512GB, and 1TB. All models are a slim 2.5″, Making them both fast, and sizable (In more ways than one). This speed won’t come cheap however, as it is expected to be priced at $1.30/GB. Making the most expensive model just around $1300

After purchasing Indilinx back in March for $32 Million, OCZ has been developing their own Controllers for their SSD’s in the hopes that they can produce more efficient products capable of handling up to 45K iops/s.

Until now SSDs have been tailored for specific applications, forcing users into a product which maximizes performance for a narrow band of applications, but is significantly lacking in others, The Octane Series solves this problem by providing the highest level of performance across varied workloads including mixed file sizes and mixed compressible and uncompressible data, all while nearly doubling NAND flash endurance.

Ryan Petersen, CEO of OCZ Technology

Clearly, OCZ made the right decision with their acquisition and development of their technology. The SSD’s support most advanced functions, including native AES encryption, ‘Instant Boot-Up’, and even features a Dual Core CPU, and 512 DRAM.

Complete Specs:

- Dual Core CPU
- Up to 512MB DRAM
- 128GB, 256GB, 512GB, and 1TB models
- High sequential speeds:
   Octane (SATA 3.0) Read: 560MB/s; Write: 400MB/s
Octane-S2 (SATA 2.0) Read: 275MB/s; Write: 265MB/s
- High transactional performance – Optimized for 4K to 16K compressed files
Octane (SATA 3.0) 45,000 random read 4K IOPS
Octane-S2 (SATA 2.0) 30,000 random read 4K IOPS
- Industry-low latency:
   Read: 0.06ms; Write: 0.09ms
- Strong performance at low queue depths (QD 1 – 3)
- Up to 8 channels with up to 16-way Interleaving
- Advanced BCH ECC engine enabling more than 70 bits correction capability per 1KB of data
- Proprietary NDurance™ Technology: increases NAND life up to 2X of the rated P/E cycles
- Efficient NAND Flash management: Dynamic and static wear-leveling, and background garbage collection
- Boot time reduction optimizations
- NCQ support up to 32 queue depth
- End-to-end data protection
- TRIM support
- Industry standard SMART reporting

Sources: http://www.ocztechnology.com/aboutocz/press/2011/458

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