News - OCZ Z-Drive hits retail, raises the bar for storage solutions

[HEXUS]

Super-speedy PCIe-based storage for those who can afford it.

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[Breezey]

Hmmmm only $3,370 you say, ill take 4 (insert mega roll eyes).

[cordas]

Well the euromillions lottery jackpot is £85 million.... So when My numbers come up I might buy one

[Michaelv]

another BS "RELEASE" by OCZ...annoying marketing as usual.... I bet if they don't get enough interest in this item that vector image will never turn into a photo as the product will never actually be manufactured...and when they will actually get the opportunity to go for it nobody will care as samsung will release something competitive at a fraction of the price

[Sim0n]

Don't let its aesthetics distract from what it actually is, though. Like competing solutions, what you're looking at is a collection of solid state drives configured in a RAID array and housed on a PCIe card that interfaces with a system via a PCIe x8 slot, negating the bandwidth restrictions of current and next-gen SATA.

Maybe im reading this incorrectly, but is this suggesting that there are actually physical SSD devices which are plugged into a host card ? As in, this is just a raid card, which you can put your own SSD's into ?

Or are the SSD chips physically soldered onto the PCB ?

[PeterStoba]

Maybe im reading this incorrectly, but is this suggesting that there are actually physical SSD devices which are plugged into a host card ? As in, this is just a raid card, which you can put your own SSD's into ?

Or are the SSD chips physically soldered onto the PCB ?

They are probably soldered or connectoed onto the PCB somehow, but yeah it is just effectively just a raid card and some ssds under a nice shroud probably.

[Faiakes]

Did I read that right?

"bootable" ...

[Funkstar]

Maybe im reading this incorrectly, but is this suggesting that there are actually physical SSD devices which are plugged into a host card ? As in, this is just a raid card, which you can put your own SSD's into ?

There were prototype photos floating about that showed a large PCB with with 4x SATA surface mount connectors and 4x 2.5" SSD along with a RAID controller.

Did I read that right?

"bootable" ...

No reason why not. Both my PERC 5/i RAID cards can be bootable if I wanted. I could have 8x 2TB drives in a RAID-5 array and boot Windows from that.

[c0ld]

Ill take one of these and a Tesla thank you very much, in fact make it 2 Z-drives and 3 Tesla cards, that should do it.

Now just waiting for my lottery win anyday now

[miniyazz]

There were prototype photos floating about that showed a large PCB with with 4x SATA surface mount connectors and 4x 2.5" SSD along with a RAID controller.


No reason why not. Both my PERC 5/i RAID cards can be bootable if I wanted. I could have 8x 2TB drives in a RAID-5 array and boot Windows from that.

No you couldn't. Not unless you happen to have an Itanium-based motherboard, as GPT is not bootable on consumer motherboards and MFT doesn't support more than 2TB.

[Funkstar]

No you couldn't. Not unless you happen to have an Itanium-based motherboard, as GPT is not bootable on consumer motherboards and MFT doesn't support more than 2TB.

Ah, just as well I had no intention of doing it then

But you get my point. No reason a RAID array, which is all the Z-Drive is, cannot boot.