14 DAY TRIAL // OCZ has just announced that the company's Deneva SSD drives for enterprise clients will soon also be available in a special version that uses the MO-297 form factor and comes complete with power fail protection circuitry.
The MO-297 form factor was adopted by JEDEC a little bit more than two year ago as an effort to define a standard for thin the 1.8-inch solid state drives which are generally used in netbooks and laptops.
Compared with the usual 1.8-inch form factor, MO-297 drives are only 4mm thick (0.15-inches), but use the same standard SATA connector as their larger counterparts.
OCZ's latest solid state drives will be available in capacities ranging up to 128GB with and without OCZ DataWrite Assurance power fail protection.
Sadly, OCZ hasn't made any information available regarding the controllers or the NAND Flash installed in the MO-297 version of the Deneva drives, but the first version of these SSDs used SF-1500 controllers and eMLC memory.
According to the company, the new Deneva SSDs were designed to be used in a wide array of SAN and storage applications, including metadata storage, as well as in a broad range of storage, data communications, and industrial applications.
"OCZ has a history of developing groundbreaking solutions which underpin major architectural changes in computing and technology and with the new Deneva MO-297 SSDs we are excited to bring a product to market that has been specifically requested by storage system designers from system manufacturers," said Ryan Petersen, CEO of OCZ Technology Group.
"As the ideal metadata storage device, the Deneva MO-297 SSD will usher in a new generation of low-cost, high-speed SANs that can effectively solve the big data challenges in the datacenter today," concluded the company's CEO.
The new Deneva SSDs in the MO-297 form factor are already in production and are sampling to OCZs clients.