14 DAY TRIAL // After being introduced at the beginning of October 2011, OCZ has now announced that its mSATA Deneva 2 SSDs have gained certification for being used together with Intel’s Smart Response Technology in future Ultrabook models.
For those of you who aren’t up to date with Intel’s Smart Reponse technology, this allows for an SSD to be used as a fast cache by the system in order to improve the performance of the installed hard drive.
This technology has been widely adopted by Ultrabook makers in order to cut the costs of their products while still being able to meet Intel’s strict guidelines for these ultra-thin notebooks that require almost instant resume from a sleep state.
"We are pleased with the results that Intel has achieved with our Deneva 2 mSATA products," said Tobias Brinkmann, Vice President Partner Relations at OCZ Technology Group.
"The Deneva 2 SSDs have a very small footprint making them ideal for the slim and stylish Ultrabook designs, and also deliver exceptionally fast bootup and data transfer speeds for a superior instant-on and overall more responsive computing experience," concluded the company’s rep.
The Deneva 2 mSATA drives are based on the SandForce SF-2281 controller, with support for the SATA 6Gbps standard, paired together with 20nm-class MLC NAND Flash memory.
Thanks to this configuration, the drive can reach sequential read speeds of 550 MB/s, while the 4K random access performance is rated at 80,000 IOPS (input/output operations per second).
OCZ is sampling the Deneva 2 mSATA solid state drives since October, so notebook makers definitely had enough time to develop Ultrabooks that make use of these SSDs.
Despite the early start, OCZ hasn’t mentioned any Ultrabook models or makers that plan to use the Deneva 2 SSDs in their systems.