OCZ Launches Vector SSD Series and Proprietary Barefoot 3 Controller

[Cristian_25H]

OCZ Technology Group, Inc., a leading provider of high-performance solid-state drives (SSDs) for computing devices and systems, today announced the availability of its new SATA III-based Vector SSD Series featuring the company's next-generation Indilinx Barefoot 3 controller. OCZ's worldwide technology hardware and firmware teams developed the new controller silicon and firmware completely in-house to enable full design control over the Vector SSD Series roadmap, while delivering exceptional I/O performance, enhanced reliability and endurance, and a host of differentiated features to empower high performance laptops, desktops, and workstations with superior storage capabilities.

OCZ Vector SSDs provide exceptional input/output operations per second (IOPS) performance and the cutting-edge Barefoot 3 controller consistently delivers superior sustained performance over time regardless of whether the data streams are in compressed or uncompressed formats. As a result, this groundbreaking SSD series provides faster file transfers and boot-ups, and a quicker, more responsive storage experience.





"The development of the Indilinx Barefoot 3 controller architecture is a crowning achievement in our company's history, being our first controller silicon and firmware completely designed in-house from start to finish using all of the OCZ technology development teams," said Ralph Schmitt, CEO for OCZ Technology. "These are the first SSD products delivered under the new OCZ and leverages cutting-edge controller technology to deliver a groundbreaking level of sustained performance and reliability for customers seeking a superior SSD for their high performance computing applications."

The Vector SSD Series is available in 128 GB, 256 GB and 512 GB capacities, and delivers read bandwidth of up to 550 MB/s, write bandwidth of up to 530 MB/s, random read performance of up to 100,000 IOPS. The Vector's ultra-slim, 7 mm sleek alloy housing supports a wide spectrum of computers including the latest thin form factor notebooks, and each Vector SSD is also bundled with a 3.5-inch desktop adapter bracket and Acronis True Image cloning software to enable quick and easy data transfer from legacy hard disk drive (HDD) storage to high performance Vector SSD storage.

Endurance was a major priority in the design of the Vector Series, and the highly intelligent Barefoot 3 controller includes an advanced suite of flash management tools that can analyze and dynamically adapt to increasing NAND vulnerabilities as flash cells wear or process geometries get smaller. In this way, the Barefoot 3 controller overcomes the shortcomings associated with MLC NAND flash memory and is specified to deliver 20 GB host writes per day for 5 years. This 5-year warranty ensures that Vector SSDs can be reliably used in a wide range of high performance computing environments over an extended lifetime.

[TheLostSwede]

Is this going to be another re-badged Marvell chip or are we actually looking at something in-house here?

[Th3pwn3r]

Speeds are still the same from what I'm seeing so...not a huge step forward. However, these newer models will drive prices of the current models down so that's good for us.

[blanarahul]

Originally Posted by TheLostSwede

Is this going to be another re-badged Marvell chip or are we actually looking at something in-house here?

Please read the article!

I am so exited about this product. Let's see how this goes against the 840 Pro!!!

[VulkanBros]

Originally Posted by TheLostSwede

Is this going to be another re-badged Marvell chip or are we actually looking at something in-house here?

Read this: http://www.guru3d.com/articles_pages...ew_test,1.html

[cdawall]

Originally Posted by VulkanBros

Read this: http://www.guru3d.com/articles_pages...ew_test,1.html

Ha I have the original Barefoot controller in my SSD's.

[Prima.Vera]

Any comparison tests against Samsung 840 and 840 Pro yet?

[tacosRcool]

But will it be any good?

[Fourstaff]

Originally Posted by Prima.Vera

Any comparison tests against Samsung 840 and 840 Pro yet?

Anandtech has one up

So the only thing we need is reliability test, which will show up in a few months time after first adopters have a go at breaking them.

Originally Posted by tacosRcool

But will it be any good?

Initial impressions pretty good