Official OCZ Z Drive Specs

[Glenn]

Can't tell you where I got these, but they are the direct specs from OCZ on the new Z Series PCIe Drives. Pricing is at $1200 for the 250G, $1885 for the 500G and $2935 for the 1T. Terribly high but lets hope they come down over time! Great specs though!

Part Number(s)
OCZSSDPCIE-1ZDRV250G
Product Name
OCZ Z-Drive PCI Express Solid State Drive Card (250GB)
Density
250GB
Product Category
Solid State Drive (PCI-E)
Maximum Read Speed
450
Sustained Write Speed
200
Maximum Write Speed
300
Product Description
OCZ Z-Drive PCI Express Card Solid State Drive 250GB
UPC
842024013556
Weight
0.45 Kg
Dimensions
245mm x 124mm x 22mm
Country of Origin (COO)
Taiwan
Schedule B Code,
Trademarks
8473.30.1040
Compliance
RoHS; UL; FCC; CE
Applications
PC and Mac, High-Performance Computing
O/S Compatibility
Windows XP 32 Bit; Windows XP 64 Bit; Windows Vista 32 Bit; Windows Vista
64 Bit; Windows 7 32 Bit; Windows 7 64 Bit; Mac OS X 10 and Above
Selling Features
? Blazing fast PCI-Express based MLC SSD up to 1TB capacity
? Quieter, more durable, and lower total cost of ownership versus HDD
? 256MB of local cache and hardware-based RAID controller

Part Number(s)
OCZSSDPCIE-1ZDRV500G
Product Name
OCZ Z-Drive PCI Express Solid State Drive (500GB)
Density
500GB
Product Category
Solid State Drive (PCI-E)
Maximum Read Speed
510
Sustained Write Speed
200
Maximum Write Speed
480
Product Description
OCZ Z-Drive PCI Express Card Solid State Drive 500GB
UPC
842024013563
Weight
0.45 Kg
Dimensions
245mm x 124mm x 22mm
Country of Origin (COO)
Taiwan
Schedule B Code,
Trademarks
8473.30.1040
Compliance
RoHS; UL; FCC; CE
Applications
PC and Mac, High-Performance Computing
O/S Compatibility
Windows XP 32 Bit; Windows XP 64 Bit; Windows Vista 32 Bit; Windows Vista
64 Bit; Windows 7 32 Bit; Windows 7 64 Bit; Mac OS X 10 and Above
Selling Features
? Blazing fast PCI-Express based MLC SSD up to 1TB capacity
? Quieter, more durable, and lower total cost of ownership versus HDD
? 256MB of local cache and hardware-based RAID controller

Part Number(s)
OCZSSDPCIE-1ZDRV1T
Product Name
OCZ Z-Drive PCI Express Solid State Drive (1TB)
Density
1TB (1 Terabyte)
Product Category
Solid State Drive (PCI-E)
Maximum Read Speed
500
Sustained Write Speed
200
Maximum Write Speed
470
Product Description
OCZ Z-Drive PCI Express Card Solid State Drive 1TB
UPC
842024013570
Weight
0.45 Kg
Dimensions
245mm x 124mm x 22mm
Country of Origin (COO)
Taiwan
Schedule B Code,
Trademarks
8473.30.1040
Compliance
RoHS; UL; FCC; CE
Applications
PC and Mac, High-Performance Computing
O/S Compatibility
Windows XP 32 Bit; Windows XP 64 Bit; Windows Vista 32 Bit; Windows Vista
64 Bit; Windows 7 32 Bit; Windows 7 64 Bit; Mac OS X 10 and Above
Selling Features
? Blazing fast PCI-Express based MLC SSD up to 1TB capacity
? Quieter, more durable, and lower total cost of ownership versus HDD
? 256MB of local cache and hardware-based RAID controller

 

[Idontcare]

Why are the sustained write speeds so low?

Presumably the bandwidth numbers are for sequential writes of large filesizes as that is how OCZ advertises.

Inquiring minds will want to see small file random write performance.

 

[imported_dlb]

Amount of cache suggest that they don't use Vertex, but crappy JMicron drives.
Maximum probably means "writes to cache".
Another pointless product that looks good in benchmarks, but falls when it comes to real usage.

 

[magreen]

Hey, it's all about the benchmarks baby!

I heard these Z Drives use a new proprietary bus technology to communicate between flash chips, called. BlingBus.

 

[Idontcare]

OCZ Launches Z-Drive PCI-Express SSD, Works Around Limits of SATA Interface

OCZ will compete against the RAIDDrive with its own Z-Drive SSD using a PCI-E 2.0 x4 slot. It will feature a combined 256MB cache managed with an onboard RAID controller. Capacities of 250GB, 500GB, and 1TB will be offered.

Maximum read and write speeds vary for each model in the series, although the maximum sustained write speed will be limited to 200 MB/s for all Z-Drives. Random read and write speeds were not made available.

http://www.dailytech.com/article.aspx?newsid=14967

Uhhhhh...someone explain to me why the f.ck I need to buy a $1k z-drive to plug into my x4 slot to bypass my existing 250MB/s SataII ports just so I can experience 200MB/s sustained bandwidth? And no random write speeds reported? Can't be good.

I pity anyone who finds themselves in the position where buying this thing is their only viable solution to whatever speed/capacity/reliability and $/GB and $/MB/s needs they have at the time. 200MB/s!? Come on even on ICHR10 raid with a couple vertex SSD's (lets not even talk about X25-M's) would beat this thing.

 

[magreen]

:music: Blingle bells, Blingle bells, Blingle all the way,
Oh what fun it is to drive in a fake raid0 array-ay! :music:

 

[Rifter]

and people think that SSD will replace spindle, those prices are out of control, maybe in ten years.

 

[jandlecack]

Originally posted by: Rifterut
and people think that SSD will replace spindle, those prices are out of control, maybe in ten years.

Which sucks for us because consumer (desktop) HDDs are nowhere near as fast as they should be.

Raptor drives aren't the solution either. Then I'd rather spend the extra money and go SSD straight away.

 

[n7]

Originally posted by: Rifterut
and people think that SSD will replace spindle, those prices are out of control, maybe in ten years.

It will.

But this is a PCI-e card based SSD...not my cup of tea at all.

 

[Bolas]

So now that these are out... do they perform better or worse than an Intel X25-M 160GB G2 SSD? What about over time, do they suffer from lack of TRIM?

If I want fast boot and load times with no stuttering during operation, is one of these a better choice than an Intel SSD?

 

[Seven]

$3K for 1TB? No, thanks I'll keep the mechanical..