OCZ has just released a new firmware for its Indilinx Everest-based Octane lineup. On the plus side, it should significantly boost performance in the IOPS department, on the downside it will wipe your drive. This is what OCZ itself calls a “destructive” update, so cloning the drive before moving ahead with the update sounds like [...]
Intel’s current Sandy Bridge platform added SATA 3 (6Gbps) support for laptops, allowing laptop users to take advantage of the improved interface bandwidth and SSDs that have the capacity to use it. However, a vast majority of laptops ship with regular hard drives to keep the cost down, which is no doubt one of the [...]
OCZ is launching a new ‘Petrol’-series SSD based on the Indilinx controller (now owned by OCZ) which is also present in the (also relatively new) Octane series. By utilizing their own controller instead of the ones from SandForce that OCZ has been relying on for quite some time, the manufacturer claims a reduction in development [...]
OCZ aquired the SSD controller manufacturer Indilinx earlier this year–perhaps in a bid to loosen its ties to SandForce while increasing the prifit margins at the same time. In any event, the first product bearing the “Indilinx Infused” tagline, the OCZ Octane, was recently announced. Among other things, the new and improved Indilinx controller is [...]
OCZ continues to sell SSDs like hotcakes and continues to invest in new products, usually with the SandForce processor as the weapon of choice, but as some of you might rember, OCZ acquired Indilinx a while back, and here is the first result of the acquisition Whereas the extremely popular Vertex 3, Agiliy 3 and [...]
This is, as far as we can tell, the best deal yet on a 120GB Solid 3 and quite possibly even the best one to date on a 120GB drive based on the SandForce 2281 controller. TigerDirect is selling it for $129.99 including a $30 mail-in rebate. That makes it an exceptionally wallet-friendly entry into [...]
OCZ has launched its latest PCIe solid state drives for the enthusiast consumer market, the RevoDrive 3 and RevoDrive 3 X2, along with promises of exceptional performance. The new lineup is based on the latest SandForce controllers (SandForce-2281)–two or four of them working in an internal RAID 0 configuration to boost performance. TRIM support is [...]
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Just like several other SSD manufacturers, OCZ has unveiled several new interesting products at this year’s Computex trade show, including their own approach to the hybrid drive concept; using an SSD as cache memory to a larger hard drive. Their new RevoDrive Hybrid comes with a 60 to 120GB SSD and a 500GB to 1TB [...]
Not long ago, OCZ released its new 25nm Vertex 3 series that proved to be the world’s fastest SSD in the 2.5-inch “enthusiast” segment. Now the company is taking the logical steps to also update their Agility and Solid series with the new SandForce SF-2200 series controller. As with the Vertex 3, these new drives [...]
