OCZ's huge 3.2TB Z-Drive 4500 SSD is fast and smart

[Scorpus]

OCZ has launched a brand new high-capacity, high-speed solid state drive destined for server applications, known as the Z-Drive 4500. Boasting performance well over what is supported through a 6 Gbps SATA interface, the Z-Drive 4500 is a full-height, single-slot PCIe 2.0 8x expansion card, utilizing Toshiba's 19nm MLC NAND.

According to the Z-Drive 4500's specification table, the SSD is capable of 2,900 MB/s sequential reads, 2,200 MB/s sequential writes, 252,000 IOPS random reads and 78,000 IOPS random writes. This is well above a standard desktop SSD, which usually tops out around 550 MB/s for sequential read/write and 100,000 IOPS for random reads.

The drive itself is made up of eight separate SSDs based on SandForce silicon, with OCZ's Virtualized Controller Architecture (VCA) combining all eight drives into a single volume. VCA allows you to configure redundancy, plus there's support for TRIM and it includes a custom queuing system. Alongside VCA, OCZ has packed in a new thermal throttling system that uses several sensors to measure temperatures and scale back performance when thresholds are exceeded.

The Z-Drive 4500 will be available in three models, one with 800 GB of storage that'll set you back $2,355, another with 1.6 TB for $3,806 and the largest with a whopping 3.2 TB. The flagship 3.2 TB drive is capable of withstanding 2,500 TB of writes over its lifetime, but it won't be cheap: expect to pay $6,533 for it, or $2.04 per GB.

In comparison, Samsung's desktop-grade 840 EVO SSD with 1 TB of storage costs $509, or $0.51 per GB; 4 TB desktop-class hard drives are also available for $165, or $0.04 per GB. Just goes to show that if you want a high-speed, high-capacity enterprise drive, you're going to need to hand over quite a lot of cash.

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[cmbjive]

Alright! I'll be on this in about fifteen years!

 

[NicktheWVAHick]

Will wait for the price to come down below $100 before purchasing one.

 

[wiyosaya]

4 TB desktop-class hard drives are also available for $165, or $0.04 per GB.

This must be a misprint??

 

[thelatestmodel]

4 TB desktop-class hard drives are also available for $165, or $0.04 per GB.

This must be a misprint??

Somewhat misleading, perhaps. It's clearly referring to a non-SSD drive, but the way it's phrased almost makes it seem like it is talking about an SSD.

 

[Guest]

Just remember it comes with OCZ's warranty, which Toshiba won't honor.

 

[AlanCasseb]

4 TB desktop-class hard drives are also available for $165, or $0.04 per GB.

This must be a misprint??

$1650?

 

[Guest]

He's referring to mechanical hard drives.

 

[Darth Shiv]

Just remember it comes with OCZ's warranty, which Toshiba won't honor.

Doubt that applies on new products? Would be nice for clarification though...

 

[Fbarnett]

Pc sales are declining because people have no $$$ and these companies introduce stuff like this. People are buying mostly low end stuff . I know that I would like a ssd but I can do 3tb for $150.00 and wait a few more seconds

 

[TheLastPanda]

Pc sales are declining because people have no $$$ and these companies introduce stuff like this. People are buying mostly low end stuff . I know that I would like a ssd but I can do 3tb for $150.00 and wait a few more seconds

I look at it a different way. I bought a 250gb ssd for $150 and just conserve space. Speed is something I will always benefit from whereas unused space is worthless to me. Especially when steam saves all my games in the cloud, and with today internet speeds I can have all the games I could fit redownloaded over night. I also have a 1tb external for backups if I want to store things there. Ive honestly met three people in my life who use terabytes of space and they are all pirates. Not to say there aren't legitimate uses for mass storage, but its overrated imo

 

[SNGX1275]

Not to say there aren't legitimate uses for mass storage, but its overrated imo

People that have GoPro cameras can eat up a lot of space very quickly.

 

[Guest]

This is clearly not meant for desktop user. I found this drive trying to solve a manufacturing problem. I have a linescan camera capturing several gb of image data per second and I am unable to store all of the images because I can not dump it from memory in time. This will allow me to store and analyze images I could not do otherwise.