OCZ Z-Drive m84 PCI-Express SSD

frenchie · Post by **frenchie** » Fri Dec 11, 2009 3:58 am

http://www.ocztechnology.com/products/s ... xpress_ssd

256GB Max Performance
Read: Up to 750MB/s
Write: Up to 650MB/s
Sustained Write: Up to 600MB/s

512GB Max Performance
Read: Up to 870MB/s
Write: Up to 780MB/s
Sustained Write: Up to 600MB/s

1TB Max Performance
Read: Up to 870MB/s
Write: Up to 780MB/s
Sustained Write: Up to 600MB/s

Announced price of the 1TB version is 3100 Euros

KadazanPL · Post by **KadazanPL** » Fri Dec 11, 2009 5:23 am

Those performance figures are impressive, if true. I hope the price will drop to enthusiast levels in the next few years. One thing I don't understand though... Why does it need an additional molex power connector? I thought that PCIe slot could supply up to 75W, which should be more than enough for a SSD (even with a RAID controller onboard).

Eunos · Post by **Eunos** » Fri Dec 11, 2009 5:18 pm

One review was less than persuasive as to the supremacy of the Z drive.

http://hothardware.com/Articles/OCZ-ZDr ... SD-Review/

Nonetheless a pointer to the future!

A quote from another forum regarding the molex:
"The TDP of the Z Drive is well under 75W. A standard Molex connector was chosen for it\'s 5V line. That\'s what the Vertex drives inside the enclosure run on. The PCIe RAID card itself runs on the PCIe 1.5V, but for a prototype design, the required buck-boost VRM to make that 1.5V into 5V to power the drives would have been a costly, time-consuming, and almost pointless."