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Posted November 1, 2012, 3:30 PM by Matthew DeCarlo | Filed in Hardware, Industry News
Hoping to get OCZ back on track, newly appointed chief executive Ralph Schmitt has revealed plans to reduce costs and streamline the company's lineup. OCZ has repeatedly missed earnings expectations, including a $6.3 million loss in its first quarter that…
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Posted July 2, 2012, 1:34 AM by Steven Walton | Filed in TechSpot, Hardware
Although SandForce controllers have powered much of OCZ's solid-state lineup, the company is shifting to its own solutions after purchasing Indilinx early last year. The "Octane" flash drives were the first to use the Indilinx Everest controller last holiday season and now that its SF-2281-based drives are over a year old, OCZ has begun phasing Everest into the rest of its offerings, including the Vertex series.

The Vertex 4 series is aimed at performance buffs, with initial Indilinx Everest 2 based models offering capacities of 64GB, 128GB, 256GB and 512GB. Performance is the name of the game here and OCZ doesn't disappoint.
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Posted May 8, 2012, 7:30 AM by Matthew DeCarlo | Filed in Hardware
OCZ has announced a new firmware update that boosts performance of fourth-generation Vertex drives by up to 110% in certain situations. The update (v1.4RC) increases 128KB sequential reads from 535MB/s to 550MB/s on 128GB, 256GB and 512GB Vertex 4s, while…
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Posted March 28, 2012, 1:30 PM by Jose Vilches | Filed in Hardware, Software
OCZ has released a new firmware update for its range of SSDs running Indilinx Barefoot controllers and 34 nm NAND flash. Specifically, Vertex, Agility and Solid2 drives made after December 2009. The Arowana Flash Translation Layer (FTL) firmware update brings…
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Posted April 14, 2011, 6:28 AM by Steven Walton | Filed in TechSpot, Hardware
The performance oriented controller used by the Vertex 3 known as the SandForce SF-2281 includes support for the SATA 6Gb/s interface, while boasting read and write speeds of 500MB/s+, a mind blowing figure when compared to previous generation chips.

For now it appears solid state drives will continue to get faster, but not any cheaper. OCZ has set the list price for the Vertex 3 120GB version at $249, while the 240GB version will cost $499. The good news is though, the performance bump is well worth it.
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Posted February 24, 2011, 6:57 PM by Matthew DeCarlo | Filed in Hardware
OCZ has introduced its next generation of Vertex solid-state drives armed with SandForce's latest drive controllers. OCZ offers two versions of the drive, one aimed at client environments and the other intended for enterprise applications, with both using different controllers.…
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Posted January 6, 2011, 9:30 AM by Jose Vilches | Filed in Hardware
Just like it did last year, OCZ revealed several new flash-based storage solutions at CES, including an update to the popular Vertex SSD line with the Vertex 3 Pro and Vertex 3 EX. Both units have a 2.5-inch form factor,…
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