14 DAY TRIAL // OCZ Technology has formally launched the Intrepid 3000 series of solid-state drives, featuring up to 800 GB and transfer speeds of 470 MB/s.
It might be the company's deathly croak really, since it won't be long before OCZ is bought by Toshiba.
Anyway, the SSD line is made of four members, with 100 GB, 200 GB, 400 GB, and 800 GB respectively.
The Marvell 88SS9187 controller drives the NAND Flash chips (multi-level cell / MLC on Intrepid 3600, enduring enterprise MLC / eMLC on Intrepid 3800) under the guidance of OCZ's proprietary firmware.
The 470 MB/s performance is only reached by the 800 GB drive, but the others should manage decent performances as well.
Speaking of which, random performance is of 91,000 IOPS for random reads (4K blocks) and 40,000 IOPS for random writes (4K blocks).
Sales will start in the first quarter of 2014, but prices aren't known yet.