14 DAY TRIAL // Back in the first half of December 2013, we said that the Intrepid 3000 SSD Series was essentially OCZ's last breath, the death croak as it were, but we have just been proven wrong.
The company may be drifting away into obscurity, but it had enough strength for one product release now that CES has come along.
The Consumer Electronics Show is the annual technology conference that happens in Las Vegas, Nevada every January.
This edition is set between January 7 and 10 and has already played host to a great many products, from small to huge.
OCZ's new drive is one of the former, being a 2.5-inch solid-state drive designed from 19 nm MLC (multi-level cell) NAND Flash memory chips.
The NAND comes from Toshiba, which is oddly fitting seeing as how Toshiba is almost done buying the SSD maker. The process started almost immediately after OCZ went bankrupt back in November.
We would not have been surprised to learn that a SandForce controller chip was used in the making of the solid-state drive.
That's not the case though. Instead, OCZ chose a Barefoot 310 from Indilinx, which still managed to reach a transfer speed of 550 MB/s.
We're not sure what the writing speed is though. 550 MB/s is good for a reading rate, but the writing speed could be of below even 400 MB/s. Some point between 400 and 500 MB/s is still more likely though.
Truth be told, the Vertex collection of OCZ storage devices has been around for a long time, with new members constantly being added even as older ones drift out of sale.
Sadly, while the capacities of Vertex 460 have been revealed to be of 120 GB, 240 GB and 480 GB, prices have not been uncovered yet. Things tend to go this way at shows.