OCZ Z-Drive R2

High-speed solid-state disk (3 photos)

The company OCZ Technology today introduced a new generation of its professional solid-state drives, which was designated Z-Drive R2. These hard drives with interface PCI Express x8 and internal RAID 0 of the eight items of interest not only for its speed, but also a unique opportunity to replace the memory modules in the field. For example, if a solid state memory module has failed, or want to increase the amount of storage, you can do it yourself, without sending a costly drive to a service center. All drives in this series use solid-state memory devices such as the production of MLC Samsung, which is housed a pair of straps eight special connectors on the two tiers of the PCB device. Memory Model Z-Drive R2 m84 provide data transmission speed up to 800 and 750 MB / sec read and write operations, respectively. They have a 256 MB cache and 256 GB, 1 TB or 2 TB. Model Z-Drive R2 p84 deprived of the opportunity to change the memory modules, but also provides data transmission speed up to 850 MB / s for read operations and up to 800 MB / s for write operations. Buffer size is 256 MB, the drive can hold from 256 GB to 1 TB of information.

Finally, the flagship of the series is the drive Z-Drive R2 p88 with increased up to 512 MB buffer and removable memory modules. He develops the data transmission speed up to 1.4 GB / s as the read operations and the operations of the recording. The model is presented in a 512 GB, 1 TB and 2 TB. Terabyte version in the European retail market is worth over 4000 euros, which allows us to judge the general order of prices. All drives the family have a mass of 500 gr. and mean time between failure of at least one million hours.