Strong SSD Demand Leads to New OCZ Manufacturing Facility

Even with all the supposed issues plaguing certain parts of the world, the solid state drive market still seems to be seeing quite high demand, to the point where OCZ has decided to open up a new manufacturing facility.

Some time ago, OCZ decided to focus on its solid state drive business, since NAND Flash memory seemed to be taking off at a rapid rate.

Now, it seems that its move is beginning to yield results, as the so-called pressure from its growing client base has supposedly led to a demand that is too high for its current resources to handle.

What this led to is OCZ's need to open up a new manufacturing facility in Taiwan, on October 25 to be exact.

This should let it boost its SSD production capacity from the current 50,000 units per month to 140,000 units.

"As our SSD revenues continue to expand, we are happy to announce our new state-of-the-art manufacturing facility in Taipei, Taiwan," said Ryan Petersen, CEO of the OCZ Technology Group.

"Our new 20,000 square foot facility was set up in response to increased demand from OEMs for our Enterprise Solid State Drive products and significantly increases our monthly SSD capacity," Petersen added.

No doubt one of the major factors behind the growing demand for SSDs is the arrival of SandForce's latest line of SSD controllers.

The so-called SandForce SF-2000 allow reading and writing to be done at up to 500 MB/s on the SATA 6.0Gbps connection.

These chips also push random performance to 60,000 IOPS for both reading and writing. OCZ has already announced the Deneva drives set to employ these controller chips.

These units are slated to start sampling by the end of the year and will become available worldwide in the first quarter of 2011.