OCZ Z-Drive R5 announed

by Hilbert Hagedoorn on: 01/06/2012 09:27 PM | source: | 0 comment(s)

OCZ and Marvell unveiled the industry's fastest PCI Express (PCIe) storage system, the Z-Drive R5. The increased performance, reliability, and endurance of the Z-Drive R5 is designed to take PCIe-based solid state storage to the next level for enterprise environments.

The Z-Drive R5 features a jointly developed "Kilimanjaro" OCZ and Marvell native PCIe to NAND flash controller platform, allowing for completely scalable performance and redundancy while eliminating the need for a separate storage controller, thus reducing the cost to deploy high performance solid state storage systems in the data center.

The native PCIe Z-Drive R5 offers an intelligent, hardware-meets-software managed solution designed to dramatically accelerate database, enterprise, and virtualization applications. Combining high-performance architecture with OCZ managed software, the Z-Drive R5 provides second-to-none performance, flexibility, durability, and enhanced reliability features, allowing datacenters to rely on a PCIe-based SSD as their primary Tier 0/1 storage solution and a viable end-to-end SAN replacement.

The Z-Drive R5 is ideal for demanding computing environments and features:

Incredible bandwidth capabilities and maximum transactional performance
High capacities up to 12TB
Ideal for all enterprise data types with both compressible and non-compressible files as well as large data sets
Complete storage subsystem management with OCZ Virtualized Controller Architecture

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