OCZ Z-Drive R4 PCIe SSD Unveiled With 2,800 Mbps Transfer Speeds

OCZ have today unveiled their latest creation the Z-Drive R4 PCIe SSD which is capable of transferring up to 2800 megabytes per second (MB/s) and completing over 500,000 input-output operations per second (IOPS).

The new Z-Drive R4 PCIe SSD has been designed for cloud computing and enterprise data applications. Its available in two standard configurations, a half height card designed for space constrained 1U servers and multi-node rackmount servers, and a full height card. With both supporting single-level cell (SLC) or multi-level cell (MLC) NAND flash.

“The OCZ Z-Drive R4 is truly unique, melding hardware and software managed solutions with integrated VCA 2.0. VCA 2.0 is a multifaceted virtualization layer and interfaces with the OCZ SuperScale Storage Controller which combines processing and full DMA (direct memory access) cores, as well as internal PCIe, SATA and SAS physical interfaces.”

For more information on the new OCZ Z-Drive R4 PCIe SSD jump over to the OCZ website to read the full press release.

Source: OCZ