OCZ Pushes Boundries with the 1TB Octane SSD

OCZ’s new 2.5 inch high-capacity Octane SSDs utilize the Indilinx Everest platform to deliver superior performance and endurance for a wider range of workloads than ever before.

Califirnia – Oct. 20, 2011 – OCZ Technology today launched the Indilinx Everest-based Octane SATA 3.0 and SATA 2.0 SSD series, striking the ideal balance between capacity, size, and speed. Not only is it the world’s first SSD with a 1TB capacity in a 2.5 inch format, OCZ’s Octane SSD series also combines high-speed data transfer rates with record-breaking access times to provide a great user experience and improved application performance.

“OCZ has reached an important milestone in the development of its own controller technology,” said James E. Bagley, Senior Analyst with Storage Strategies NOW. “The high sustained performance, even with compressed files, the rapid boot feature and high access speeds using SATA 3.0 protocol puts their controller technology in the major league.”

“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,” said Ryan Petersen, CEO of OCZ Technology. “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.”

Features

Dual Core CPU:
- Up to 512MB DRAM cache
- 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

Octane (SATA 3.0) 45,000 random read 4K IOPS

Octane-S2 (SATA 2.0) 30,000 random read 4K IOPS

Octane SSDs also come equipped with Indilinx’s proprietary NDurance™ technology, increasing the lifespan of the NAND flash memory, ensuring the most consistent and reliable performance as well as minimizing performance degradation even after the drive’s storage capacity is highly utilized. In addition, Octane series drives support AES and automatic encryption to secure critical data.

The OCZ Octane SSD Series will be available November 1st from OCZ in models ranging from 128GB-1TB capacities.