OCZ Unveils Class-leading Enterprise SSD Products at CES

Helping to continue its rise to fame in the enterprise space, OCZ has today has announced a collection of SSD solutions aimed at companies that demand huge storage at the fastest performance possible. One such product is the Z-Drive R5, touted as a solution that “will be 2012’s most advanced SSD”. That seems like a lofty claim given 2012 has just kicked off, but the drive sure does have the goods.

For starters, OCZ is able to offer the Z-Drive R5 in densities up to 12TB in size (I wouldn’t even dare to ask for a quote on one of these puppies), which based on reports that state that each controller can handle 128GB of NAND, the entire setup would include… 96 separate controllers. Wow.

That wouldn’t be for naught, however. With this setup OCZ can achieve 16GB/s total bandwidth, 7.2GB/s sequential transfers, 2.52 million IOPS, and the ability to infinitely scale the cards. Designed for mission-critical scenarios, it seems likely that the bottleneck wouldn’t be with the R5, but with how you are able to push it.

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In addition to the R5, OCZ also announced the Z-Drive R4 CloudServ RM1616, a card that’s not quite as high-performing as the R5 (but still to the point of being jaw-dropping), and is designed for situations where fast cloud storage is a must. Each card scales up to 16TB, and offers performance of 6.5GB/s transfer and 1.4 million IOPS.

OCZ also introduced a SATA solution alongside these PCIe ones, in the form of the Chiron. This 3.5″ form-factor SSD is set to be available in a 4TB size and offer transfer speeds of 560MB/s and 100,000 IOPS performance. The Chiron’s target customer is one who needs huge storage for backup, where a normal hard drive just won’t do.

Finally, the Everest 2 controller was also formally announced. A follow-up to the original released months ago, this controller has been designed specifically for I/O-intensive workloads, and will be able to offer 550MB/s transfer speeds and IOPS performance of 105,000. The platform officially offers support for 2TB of NAND, and is set to remain in the 2.5″ form-factor. Does this mean we’ll see 2TB 2.5″ SSDs this year? Let’s hope so.

Good showing all-around for OCZ. Even though nothing here targets the desktop consumer, we can be sure the technology found in all of these new drives will trickle down into enthusiast parts soon enough.