OCZ Announces 1TB 'Octane' SSD
OCZ announced today that they have made the world’s first (well, first that’s going to market) 1TB solid state hard drive. Dubbed “Octane,” this new SSD uses Indilinx’s Everest controller and a lot of tweaking to make this have ridiculous speeds for all different applications, from programs to compressed files. There are two types in the series, SATA 2.0 and SATA 3.0. Obviously, the SATA 3.0 is much faster, though how much will be reveled at the end. Ryan Petersen, CEO of OCZ Technology, said:
“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. 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.”
The new series, ranging in models from 128GB to 1TB, will be available starting on November 1. Highlights taken from the press release follow:
- 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
- High transactional performance - Optimized for 4K to 16K compressed files
- Octane (SATA 3.0) 45,000 random read 4K IOPS
- Octane-S2 (SATA 2.0) 30,000 random read 4K IOPS
- Industry-low latency:
- Read: 0.06ms; Write: 0.09ms
- Strong performance at low queue depths (QD 1 – 3)
- Up to 8 channels with up to 16-way Interleaving
- Advanced BCH ECC engine enabling more than 70 bits correction capability per 1KB of data
- Proprietary NDurance™ Technology: increases NAND life up to 2X of the rated P/E cycles
- Efficient NAND Flash management: Dynamic and static wear-leveling, and background garbage collection
- Boot time reduction optimizations
- NCQ support up to 32 queue depth
- End-to-end data protection
- TRIM support
- Industry standard SMART reporting