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Acer America Corp. is a computer manufacturer of business and consumer PCs, notebooks, ultrabooks, projectors, servers, and storage products.

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May 28, 2015 |

OCZ Introduces High-Performance NVMe Compliant Z-Drive 6000 PCIe SSD Series

The new series boasts leading random I/O performance and low latencies via multiple configurations to support a variety of enterprise applications and ecosystems.

OCZ Storage Solutions, a Toshiba Group Company and provider of high-performance solid-state drives (SSDs) for computing devices and systems, has introduced its Z-Drive 6000 SSD Series that combines PCI Express (PCIe) Gen 3 and Non-Volatile Memory Express (NVMe) technologies. The NVMe-compliant Z-Drive 6000 Series is available in multiple configurations supporting a variety of form factors, capacity points, and endurance ratings.

The NVMe specification extends traditional PCIe flash storage to new levels and was architected from the ground up to enable specific benefits of non-volatile memory-based solid-state storage, states OCZ. It features a streamlined memory interface, command set, and queue design that delivers faster access to critical data and highly resilient storage capabilities. This enables both system builders and storage vendors alike to develop different parts of a storage ecosystem to a standard specification with broad interoperability support between storage devices, host platforms, and software.

The Z-Drive 6000 SSD portfolio is built for compute-intensive, analytical, online transactional, and cloud-based enterprise applications that require high-performance and low-latency I/O responses. The series includes:

  • The Z-Drive 6000 SFF Series for read-intensive applications – supports 2.5-inch small form factor (SFF) and usable capacities of 800GB, 1.6TB, and 3.2TB. The series offers sequential read performance up to 2,900 MB/s, sequential write performance up to 1,900 MB/s, random read performance up to 700K IOPS, and random write performance up to 160K IOPS. It includes lowest latencies of 25µs (write) and 80µs (read). Availability is expected in Q2 2015.
  • The Z-Drive 6300 SFF Series for mixed workload applications – supports 2.5-inch SFF and usable capacities of 800GB, 1.6TB, 3.2TB, and 6.4TB. The series offers sequential read performance up to 2,900 MB/s, sequential write performance up to 1,400 MB/s, random read performance up to 700K IOPS, and random write performance up to 120K IOPS. It includes lowest latencies of 30µs (write) and 80µs (read). Availability for 800GB to 3.2TB capacities is expected in Q2 2015. Availability for 6.4TB capacity is expected later this year.
  • The Z-Drive 6300 AIC Series for mixed workload applications – supports Half-Height/Half-Length (HHHL) add-in card form factors and usable capacities of 800GB, 1.6TB, 3.2TB, and 6.4TB. Availability for the AIC Series is expected in the second half of 2015.

Upcoming features of the Z-Drive 6000 Series support dual port capabilities that enable two host systems to concurrently access the same device or allows for redundancy inside the host. In the event of a system failure, if one of the data paths becomes compromised, the available data path continues operation as if no failure had occurred through the second port without loss in Quality of Service (QoS). Additionally, the series supports hot swapping of 2.5-inch drives, pre-set power thresholds, and temperature throttling.

The Z-Drive 6000 portfolio utilizes NVMe to streamline the storage stack and reduce protocol latency to boost performance and efficiency over previous Z-Drive generations. PCIe Gen 3 bandwidth allows the Z-Drive 6000 family to achieve sustained transfer speeds up to 2.9 GB/s while NVMe efficiency enables the Z-Drive 6000 SSDs to read up to 700,000 I/O requests per second and write up to 160,000 operations per second. The Z-Drive 6000 also delivers low-latency I/O responses of only 25 microseconds for a 4KB write and 80 microseconds for a 4KB read.

OCZ is currently sampling its NVMe-compliant Z-Drive 6000 and Z-Drive 6300 SFF models to key customers and partners. A white paper entitled, “Introducing OCZ’s New NVMe-Compliant Z-Drive 6000 Series” is available here. Additional information on the Z-Drive 6000 SSD Series is available at http://ocz.com/enterprise/z-drive-6000-pcie-nvme-ssd.


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