OCZ has quietly addressed the enterprise SSD space for a while now. Today you can custom order an OCZ Deneva 2 SSD which is an enterprise focused SF-2000 based solution. OCZ's enterprise drives are fully customizable down to the controller, firmware and NAND type on-board.

When we first reviewed the OCZ Z-Drive R4 last year, the PCIe SSD amazed us with it's class leading performance numbers, as well as its ridiculous IOPS/$ performance. It was so fast in fact, that it made us re-develop our testing platform to better accommodate the burgeoning PCIe SSD space...

The OCZ Z-Drive R4 PCI Express SSD contains eight SandForce SF-2281 processors, 128 pieces of NAND flash memory and a Superscale Storage Controller. If ever a MONSTER storage device was created, the R4 definitely answers that call. In fact, a simple review just doesn't seem appropriate for...

Z-Drive R4 C Series Specifications PHYSICAL CM84 Edition CM88 Edition Usable Capacities (IDEMA) 300GB, 600GB, 1.2TB 800GB, 1.6TB, 3.2TB NAND Designed and manufactured for a wide range of enterprise environments including cloud computing and data centers, the Z-Drive R4 features OCZ's...

Power Consumption: Idle: 14.5W Active: 16W. Power Requirements: PCI Express 12V & 3.3V. Flash Virtualization Layer: OCZ VCA (Virtualized Controller Architecture) 2.0.

The drives come with no less than 16 SandForce 2500 series controllers and up to 16TB of storage capacity. In the video of the demo you can see above, OCZ had two RM1616 drives setup in one system running together in RAID 0 mode.

"The Z-Drive R4 CloudServ PCIe solid state drive delivers game-changing performance and enables clients to process massive data-sets with up to 16 TB of storage capacity on a single, easy-to-deploy card," said Ryan Petersen, CEO of OCZ Technology.

"The Z-Drive R4 CloudServ PCIe solid state drive delivers game-changing performance and enables clients to process massive data-sets with up to 16 TB of storage capacity on a single, easy-to-deploy card," said Ryan Petersen, CEO of OCZ Technology.

Bootable drive (unique from competing solutions) so users can enjoy enhanced OS performance. OCZ SuperScale storage accelerator enables scalable SSD performance and reduces the host CPU burden inherent to competing Z-Drive R4 runs optimally with 100 Linear Feet per Minute (LFM) of airflow.

OCZ Z-Drive R4 Installation and Performance. In a previous post I mentioned how we had purchased 11 300GB OCZ Z-Drive R4 PCIe-SSD cards. I believe the full height zdrive R4s are faster, so this is a compromise. Installation. Each of our servers is going to get one zdrive.

The OCZ Z-Drive R4 did nothing short of wow us the entire time we had it in our lab, as it literally performed so well that it broke our rig, forcing us to re-think the way we test enterprise PCIe solutions going forward.

OCZ Z-Drive R4 C Series PCI-Express SSD. Model. CM88. Discuss: OCZ Z-Drive R4 CM88 (3.2TB).

Ocz Z-Drive R4 Pdf User Manuals. Manuals and User Guides for OCZ Z-Drive R4. We have 1 OCZ Z-Drive R4 manual available for free PDF download: Installation & Quick Start Manual.

In our last SandForce SSD roundup I talked about how undesirable the consumer SSD market is, at least for those companies who don't produce their own controllers and/or NAND. There's a downward trend in NAND and SSD pricing...