14 DAY TRIAL // OCZ Technology Group has just announced the release of the second generation of its proprietary Virtualized Controller Architecture (VCA) which promises to bring increased performance as well as “unprecedented” flexibility and reliability to high throughput SSD storage systems.
The first iteration of the VCA technology made its debut in the Z-Drive R3 PCI-Express SSD and it 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 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.
The second generation of this technology builds upon the features of its previous iteration and adds support for the creation of a virtual pool of logical units (LUNs) as well as for the SCSI Unmap command (which isn't supported in Windows at this time).
In addition, VCA 2.0 also supports complete power fail protection, which means that in the event of unexpected system power loss the drive completes all in-progress transactions, protecting the integrity of all active data.
Other functions include support for direct memory access (DMA) and data management functions when paired together with an OCZ SuperScale PCIe-to-SAS storage controller.
"OCZ's proprietary VCA technology is the next step in the evolution of virtualization layers for solid state storage,” said Ryan Petersen, CEO of OCZ Technology Group.
“VCA 2.0 enables industry-leading configurable performance aggregation along with a rich enterprise feature set not found on competitive products."
"With its scalable performance, TRIM and SCSI unmap support, and enhanced management tools, VCA 2.0 provides superior reliability and superior performance, in a plethora of OCZ's easy-to-deploy storage solutions," concluded the company's rep.
VCA 2.0 technology will become available with the launch of OCZ's upcoming workstation and enterprise-class PCIe SSDs, including the RevoDrive 3 and Z-Drive R4.