OCZ Technology Debuts Z-Drive R2 PCI-Express Solid State Drive

OCZ Technology, a dealer in the design, manufacturing and distribution of high performance and reliable Solid State Drives (SSDs) and premium computer components, has unveiled the new Z-Drive R2 PCI (News - Alert)-express solid state drive (SSD) and have begun planning its mass production.

Z-Drive R2 Solid State Drive (SSD), the second of the company's original Z-Drive family of SSDs, builds on the existing solution but provides greater performance and design flexibility due to the implementation of a series of optimized NAND modules. The Z-Drive R2 SSD maximizes bandwidth by taking the SATA bottleneck out of the equation and utilizes the speed advantages of the PCI-Express interface.

According to the company, the Z-Drive R2 PCI-E SSDs are the result of the latest engineering breakthroughs, maximizing bandwidth for a broad range of applications spanning across virtualization, caching, and high-end storage. It creates new possibilities in enterprise data management by addressing the emerging performance demands of storage area networks (SANs), workstations, and servers.

The SSDs are a high performance storage solutions designed to meet the demanding storage and computing applications of enthusiast systems and other complex data arrays. Unlike competing solutions, the Z-Drive family is bootable and with 8 PCI-E lanes and an eight-way RAID 0 configurations it delivers performance ideal for enterprise applications that were previously limited by HDD technology.

The Z-Drive R2 offers a cost-effective formula of performance, reliability, and upkeep for consumer and enterprise customers, delivering exceptional performance that translates to professional-class data storage in a complete, all-in-one form factor.

Ryan Petersen, CEO of the OCZ Technology Group has said that their 4th generation PCIe SSD, the Z-Drive R2, tackles the performance challenges facing enterprise IT professionals head-on. The Z-Drive R2 is a total solution that delivers exceptional performance over a wide of range of applications due to its superior sequential performance, making it a winner in both high IOP and high-throughput environments. In addition, it is the only bootable and field serviceable PCIe SSD option on the market today, and due to an innovative interchangeable module design, it enables low cost field upgradability and capacity increases giving storage architects unprecedented flexibility.