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At this year's Computex fair, OCZ has presented its fastest enterprise PCI Express SSD to date, the Z-Drive R4 88, which was used by the company in order to build the first system capable of exceeding the 1 million IOPS barrier.
OCZ's latest drive is powered by no less than eight enterprise-class SandFor... |
1 June 2011
06:07 GMT |
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OCZ has just announced that, at this year's Computex fair, the company will showcase the highly anticipated Indilinx Jet Stream SATA 6Gbps solid state drive controller as well as a wide range of other innovative SSD products.
The Jet Stream controller was under development when OCZ acquired Indilinx in mid-Marc... |
24 May 2011
09:53 GMT |
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While solid state drives may already be fast and reliable, OCZ decided it could improve things, using, in this case, a software-based solution instead of an architectural, hardware one.As end-users know, semiconductor manufacturing processes have been evolving, at a fairly rapid pace even.This led to NAND Flash memo... |
18 May 2011
03:52 GMT |
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OCZ has just announced that it has expanded its enterprise solid state drive portfolio with a new 3.5-inch Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) solution that goes by the name of Talos and is built using the company's proprietary Virtualized Controller Architecture (VCA) technology.
VCA enables OCZ to pair together two ... |
12 May 2011
15:21 GMT |
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After both drives have been already detailed and pictured, OCZ has decided to make official the SandForce-based Agility 3 and Solid 3 SSDs, which should become available for purchase in the not-so-distant future.
The two solid state drives are based on the SandForce SF-2281 controller which packs a native SATA 6Gb... |
10 May 2011
10:04 GMT |
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Even though OCZ has recently finished acquiring SSD controller manufacturer Indilinx, the San Jose, California, company keeps on releasing one SandForce-based drive after the other, and the next such storage device to see the light of day will be called the Solid 3.
Just like the recently released Agility 3 and th... |
9 May 2011
08:08 GMT |
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Considering how SandForce outdid itself when it made its newest series of solid state drive controllers, it would have been odd if its new chips were not used by top-tier SSD makers, so OCZ's Agility 3 line probably surprised fewer people than it otherwise would have.
It looks like the SandForce Sf-2000 seri... |
7 May 2011
03:50 GMT |
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The world of solid state drives just became larger now that a certain company decided to set aside the SATA connection for a while and delivered a model designed to be connected to a certain other motherboard interface.
PCI Express solid state drives are far less common than 2.5-inch models designed to work on SA... |
29 April 2011
02:36 GMT |
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Some may have thought that OCZ's unleashing of the Vertex 3 series of SSDs was going to be its only move for a while, but this assumption has been proven false now that a tweaked version of the line has appeared, although it is not up for grabs for now.The Vertex 3 series is just one of several series of solid ... |
26 April 2011
10:44 GMT |
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Keenly awaited by many PC enthusiasts, the OCZ Vertex 3 solid state disk has slowly but surely started to make its way into retail as Newegg has just added the 120GB and 480GB versions of the SSD to its offer and the drive retails for $299.99.
OCZ's solid state disk spent most of the last week on Newegg'... |
14 April 2011
04:28 GMT |
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It took a whole, but it looks like a certain collection of very fast solid state drives have finally been made available for order, although they aren't exactly what one might call accessible in terms of pricing.Solid state drives are already known far and wide for their very high data speeds, at least when com... |
7 April 2011
10:50 GMT |
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When OCZ first announced that it had reached an agreement with Indilinx to buy the company for $32 million in stock, their boards of directors expected for the transaction to close in mid-April, but the two outfits have somehow managed to move a lot more quickly than anyone believed it was possible, as they just anno... |
29 March 2011
10:25 GMT |
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Whenever a company reaches any sort of milestone, it stands to reason that it would issue an announcement to celebrate, and this is exactly what OCZ just did on the SSD industry.Nowadays, solid state drives may not really be mainstream, but they are definitely far more widespread and capable of higher capacities and... |
25 March 2011
05:12 GMT |
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In a surprising turn of events, OCZ Technology has just announced that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Indilinx, a company well known for its high performance solid state drive controllers and software. Indilinx will get $32 million worth of OCZ common stock from this buyout.
Before SandForce relea... |
15 March 2011
02:51 GMT |
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It appears that OCZ's latest financial report is filled to the brim with its satisfaction at having experienced record growth over the course of Fiscal Year 2011's fourth quarter.Quite often, a company's financial growth and overall situation can do wonders from a marketing standpoint, as growth raise... |
7 March 2011
08:53 GMT |
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OCZ showcased more than its fair share of novelty products at the 2011 CeBIT fair as the company's stand was full of soon to be released solid state disks, including a wide range of enterprise solutions that can go up to 8TB in capacity and use the company's proprietary HSDL interface.Starting things off is... |
4 March 2011
07:03 GMT |
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OCZ may have had some SSD problems, what with all the issues surrounding the transition to 25nm chips, but it didn't let it affect it, hence the release of the newest Vertex series of solid state drives.SandForce has already been praised, several times, for the high performance of its solid state drive controll... |
24 February 2011
09:55 GMT |
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Recently, we reported about the troubles faced by OCZ with the transition of its SSD line from 34nm to 25nm Flash, and, after numerous complaints have reached the company, OCZ has decided to issue free SSD replacements for those affected by their switch to 25nm NAND.
Many users who bought such drives have found t... |
18 February 2011
15:01 GMT |
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Announced for the first time in the third quarter of 2010, SandForce's second-generation SF-2000 SSD controller promised to deliver impressive performance levels that would blow even the fastest SSD processors out of the water, so many wondered how this solution will actually work when it reaches the market.
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18 February 2011
07:11 GMT |
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Since new process technologies have been announced over the past months, makers of Flash-based storage units have been moving on to better chips, and OCZ just announced it has moved all its SSDs to the 2Xnm process.Solid state drives have been gaining traction quickly because, despite being less capacious and much m... |
16 February 2011
05:14 GMT |
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The move to 25nm NAND flash has been touted by every manufacturer in the industry as one of the greatest improvements brought to solid state disks design since their introduction, but, as OCZ has found out, not everything is as advertised, as after the transition to 25nm, the company has started receiving numerous co... |
9 February 2011
02:54 GMT |
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OCZ Technology Group has definitely not been idle, even though it has been more or less silent lately, as proven by how it issued a press release meant to detail some PSUs that were seen back at CES 2011.The 2011 International Consumer Electronics Show was the place where many products made their first appearance.Ma... |
2 February 2011
09:31 GMT |
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Although providing a first glimpse at their Z-Drive R3 PCI-Express SSDs back at CES 2011, OCZ has decided to finally make these high-end, ultra-fast, enterprise-oriented storage solutions official, catering to the needs of system architects looking for performance, reliability, and design flexibility, as well as a co... |
28 January 2011
01:27 GMT |
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The announcement that OCZ wants to drop down out of the memory market in order to focus on building SSD drives has left many of the customers puzzled on what will happen to their support and warranties, so the company went on to assure everybody that they won't be left high and dry following this move.OCZ has al... |
18 January 2011
16:01 GMT |
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Even though it wasn't too long ago that OCZ released its latest memory products, the company seems to have decided on abandoning this facet of its business altogether in favor of focusing more on solid state drives.Even though users will always need more memory products, OCZ doesn't seem to have had very g... |
11 January 2011
02:29 GMT |
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OWC may have already launched some solid state drives, but OCZ definitely didn't lag behind, having put on show not just Vertex, but also Z-Drive SSDs, the latter designed for the PCI Express interface. Since solid state drives have been getting more popular and widespread, little by little, it is unsurprising ... |
6 January 2011
03:06 GMT |
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OCZ deals in multiple types of products, from storage solutions to power supplies, and it seems that the latter market segment has now seen the arrival of another newcomer, a new power supply for the Silencer series to be exact. PC Power & Cooling team within the OCZ technology Group is always hard at work, bringing... |
14 December 2010
10:30 GMT |
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There are many ways to boost a system's performance, but it seems Falcon went for the one with arguably the highest profile, namely a PCI Express solid state drive that OCZ launched some time ago.Though PCI Express SSDs weren't very popular at first, they started to attract more followers when they became ... |
7 December 2010
08:28 GMT |
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Although lately OCZ has been a lot more active in the SSD market, RAM memory still represents a large portion of their business, the company just announcing new DDR3 memory kits that target enthusiast users and overclockers alike, the new Xtreme Thermal Exchange (XTE) and Blade 2 high-speed desktop memory.Designed in... |
23 November 2010
10:50 GMT |
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Although most of the news that come to us from the performance SSD sector have SandForce written all over them, there are other controller manufacturers out there that can muster top notch performance out of solid state drives, Indilinx being one of them, OCZ just announcing us they have refreshed their Indilinx-base... |
17 November 2010
03:22 GMT |
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Often on the IT market, or any other market for that matter, a higher-profile player will buy off a smaller one in order to boost its prowess, and this is exactly what OCZ seems to have done, or will soon do.OCZ is one of the more well known makers of storage solutions, its line consisting mostly of Flash-based prod... |
15 November 2010
08:48 GMT |
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As always, companies are posting their financial results or revealing their expectations for the upcoming quarters or whole Fiscal Years, and it seems that OCZ is among the more optimistic of companies. Apparently, the maker of solid state drives raised its revenue guidance for Fiscal Year 2011 after a recently-anno... |
2 November 2010
05:40 GMT |
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If extreme storage performance is what you are after then you have no better option than going with an PCI Express SSD, this type of solutions becoming ever more popular along solid state disk manufacturers, OCZ just unleashing the second incarnation of its high-performance RevoDrive, dubbed the X2.Compared to the al... |
29 October 2010
02:22 GMT |
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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 see... |
19 October 2010
09:12 GMT |
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Now that companies seem to be taking turns at publishing their quarterly financial situations, OCZ has stepped up in order to reveal that it has both good news and bad news, at least as far as revenues and SSD sales, respectively, are concerned.When a company posts an increase of 265% in solid state drive shipments,... |
11 October 2010
09:40 GMT |
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As end-users may have learned, SandForce just revealed its new series of high-speed SSD controllers, and it seems that makers of such storage units are quite eager to make use of them, OCZ having already announced that it will soon bring forth a new collection of Deneva models.The new SandForce SSD controller, the S... |
7 October 2010
11:24 GMT |
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Coming with the express intention of inaugurating its HSDL interface, OCZ is preparing the IBIS, a solid state drive that, despite not plugging into the PCI Express slot, still goes well over 700 MB/s both when reading data as well as writing it.As far as consumer-oriented SSDs go, most of them have, so far, stuck t... |
29 September 2010
03:34 GMT |
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Since NAND Flash memory is quite a fair bit more expensive to turn into large-capacity storage devices than it would be to make a hard disk drive, 'affordable' SSDs are always a worthy pursuit, one which OCZ seems quite taken with if its Onyx SSD line is anything to go by.OCZ's Onyx SSD was revealed a... |
28 September 2010
02:27 GMT |
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With memory products getting faster and less power-hungry, hardware makers find themselves periodically raising the bar in both areas, and it seems OCZ has just done it in terms of energy efficiency, revealing the Platinum ELV modules.While they are less popular than high-speed products, low voltage memory modules a... |
15 September 2010
08:27 GMT |
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Though the most common type of SSD is the one that employs the same interface and form factor as hard disk drives, there are also those enterprise models that plug straight into the PCI interface, and OCZ has just demonstrated its latest such model, the RevoDrive X2.As consumers must know, solid state drives are fas... |
14 September 2010
02:47 GMT |
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It seems that the speed benefits provided to PCs by solid state drives has become the focus of OCZ technology, to the point where the company has reportedly decided to give up on part of its memory product line, those on the lower-end segments to be exact.Currently, OCZ owns four DRAM (dynamic random access memory) ... |
26 August 2010
05:06 GMT |
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Flash-based storage solutions, especially solid state drives, have actually grown in popularity quite a bit over the past year, as they have in performance and storage capacity. OCZ has been an avid promoter of such solutions, especially models powered by the ever so popular SandForce controllers. Nevertheless, the ... |
13 July 2010
02:37 GMT |
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Even as computer suppliers have been flooding the market with newer and better PCs, OCZ has been keeping the flow of solid state drives quite steady, unveiling, not too long ago, the Vertex 2 and Onyx SSDs. The same outfit is now expanding its portfolio with yet another so-called 'affordable' solution, thou... |
28 June 2010
11:01 GMT |
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Solid state drives are all built according to the same basic principle, but there are two specific form factors that ultimately determine what sort of application such storage units are used for. The 3.5-inch form is the one commonly used in desktops, whereas 2.5-inch units are employed mostly by laptops. When it com... |
18 June 2010
02:33 GMT |
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Back in late March, OCZ said that it would stop making coolers, peripherals and systems, in order to focus exclusively on storage solutions, memory products and power supplies. This announcement was then followed by a veritable flurry of such releases, with solid state drives coming out in the greatest number. Now, O... |
15 June 2010
02:31 GMT |
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Among other things, OCZ seems to have become quite fond of the SandForce SSD controllers. Over the past few months, the company has unveiled or unleashed quite a number of solid state drives, such as the 480GB Agility and Vertex 2 units. Now that Computex has kicked off, it would arguably have been most unusual if th... |
1 June 2010
02:40 GMT |
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Some time yesterday, a certain series of OCZ's solid state drives, which hadn't been officially introduced, started showing up on online retailers. This meant that the time when the storage and memory solutions developer planned to make them official was approaching and, sure enough, the day didn't go ... |
25 May 2010
02:47 GMT |
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Not long ago, it was reported that OCZ was getting ready to start shipping its latest iteration of the Agility 2 Series of solid state drives. Dubbed the 'Extended' line, they were described as almost identical to the Agility 2 Series, but configured with the latest firmware, which slightly decreases perfor... |
24 May 2010
06:01 GMT |
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No doubt consumers that like to keep tabs on the hardware market are already aware of the multiple high-speed dual-channel DDR3 memory kits that have seen the light of day over the past few months. In addition to PQI's more 'docile' 2,200MHz 4GB kit, there are 2,500MHz kits (from G.Skill and Patriot) a... |
24 May 2010
03:49 GMT |
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Back in March, OCZ announced that it had stopped making systems, peripherals and coolers, in order to focus more closely on memory products, solid state drives and power supplies. Now, it appears that the fruits of this decision are already starting to show, as the company has unleashed a new member in the Fatal1ty s... |
18 May 2010
03:02 GMT |
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