OCZ SSD Z-Drive R4 CM88 Series PCIe

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Industry leading sequential performance, Incredible IOPS performance, Outstanding IOPS scaling at greater queue depths, Incredible performance/cost (vs. Fusion IO).

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Last revision on April 22, 2013

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Industry leading sequential performance, Incredible IOPS performance, Outstanding IOPS scaling at greater queue depths, Incredible performance/cost (vs. Fusion IO)

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Several months later, our re-review has does nothing but increase our admiration for what OCZ has done with the Z-Drive R4. It's a fantastic general purpose PCIe SSD, delivering fantastic performance, with plenty of endurance, even with standard...

By StorageReview on March 07, 2012

The OCZ Z-Drive R4 did nothing short of wow us the entire time we had it in our lab, as it literally performed so well that it broke our rig, forcing us to re-think the way we test enterprise PCIe solutions going forward. It blew away the competition...

By StorageReview on September 30, 2011

OCZ's Z-Drive R4 offered breakout performance in almost every test condition we put it under. In fact, we were able to realize the card's max read/write bandwidth specification in our ATTO test and watched it flat out crush competitive products...

By HotHardware on September 27, 2011

The OCZ Z-Drive R4 took the VCA 2.0 benefits from the RevoDrive 3 X2 and amplified them to a level I could have previously only imagined. The SuperScale processor not only takes full advantage of PCIe 2.0 x8, it nearly saturates it completely. When...

By PCPer on September 27, 2011

In our last SandForce SSD roundup I talked about how undesirable the consumer SSD market is, at least for those companies who don't produce their own controllers and/or NAND. There's a downward trend in NAND and SSD pricing, which unfortunately...

By AnandTech on September 27, 2011