When we first saw OCZ Z-Drive it was both awesome and terrifying. The idea was to bake four separate SSD into one unit with an integrated RAID controller to offers considerably better performance than other SSDs. This was reinforced by the use of the PCI-Express interface, which is not limiting in the same way as SATA 3Gbps, in terms of performance and transfer rates. OCZ has presented a new tweaked version of Z-Drive that looks a more marketing friendly.
The new drive is slimmer, shorter and by the looks of it no annoying fan. Performance has been tuned too, where the 1TB model now sports 878MB/s sequential read speed and 781MB/s write speed.
The first vs. the New model
The numbers makes most other SSDs look like crap. OCZ even says that the drive is intended to be used as “primary boot drive” or just storage, making it all the more interesting since we haven’t seen that many bootable SSDs using the PCI-Express interface.
We’re awaiting prices of the three models, 250GB, 500GB, and 1TB, but we’re pretty certain they will scare of most people. Still, OCZ Z-Drive looks mighty impressive on paper.
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