OCZ Talos SAS 6Gbps SSDs Get Certified by NexentaStor

OCZ and NexentaStor have just announced that the Talos high-performance enterprise drives developed have now been certified to work in Nexenta System's NexentaStor unified storage solution software.

The NexentaStor software is a software storage platform with support for the management of data disks in virtualized environments.

This platform enables OCZ's clients to create shared pools of storage from any combination of storage hardware, and also provides full integration with virtualization approaches even for mixed vendor environments.

"We are very pleased to work with OCZ Technology to bring the latest innovation in SSD products to our end customers," said Jim Fitzgerald, VP of Business Development, Nexenta Systems.

"We believe the combination of OCZ Talos SAS and NexentaStor will provide fantastic value for today's customers facing exploding I/O challenges and a great opportunity for our mutual channel partners."

OCZ has introduced the first version of its high-performance 3.5-inch Talos solid state drives at the end of June 2011, and these were among the premiere OCZ SSDs to employ the company's proprietary Virtualized Controller Architecture (VCA).

This technology allows for two or more SSD controllers to be connected together in order to deliver increased performance.

Its main advantage over the regular RAID 0 setups, used in traditional multi-controller SSD drives, is that it enables the operating systems to use the TRIM command in order to wipe blocks of data which are no longer in use.

According to OCZ, the Talos series SSDs can deliver performance up to 50,000 sustained read/write IOPS with incompressible 4K files sizes, and 34,000 sustained mixed read/write IOPS with incompressible 8K files.

At the OpenStorage Summit, which takes place in San Jose, California between 26 and 27 October, OCZ Technology will demo a system using Cirrascale's CirraStor storage blades and OCZ Talos SAS 6Gbps enterprise SSDs running the NexentaStor software.