OCZ Releases Z-Drive Revision 4 PCIe SSD

OCZ announced recently their release of the Z-Drive Revision 4 (R4) PCI Express SSD, with read speeds up to 2800MBps. This drive is built for data centers, and comes with either MLC (multi-level cell) or SLC (single-layer cell) NAND memory. There are special features that allow the flash memory to withstand the high stress of data centers, such as lower write amplification and TRIM/SCSI Unmap Support. Ryan Peterson, the CEO of OCZ, said,

“The demand for higher performing PCIe-attached solid state storage continues to grow, and our new Z-Drive R4 represents an increased focus from OCZ to meet the needs of its enterprise and data center clients; it also represents a turning point in the evolution of PCIe SSDs. The Z-Drive R4 provides the best of both worlds for storage architects by merging the industry-leading feature-sets of both the pure hardware and pure software based approaches to data management, while maintaining user-configurable flexibility not found in other devices.”

Read the press release here and see the product page(s) here.