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OCZ introduces Z-Drive NVMe SSDs

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OCZ part of the Toshiba Group, has relased two Z-Drives running on the NVMe architecture. Their first product line up is the Z-Drive 6000 series, it has a capacity of 800GB to 3.2TB and their second model the Z-Drive 6300 series with plans of expanding the capacity up to 6.4TB. The drive can achieve a 4K random read of 700,000 IOPS and 4K random write of 160,000 IOPS. Both drives uses Toshiba's A19mm NAND, with the 6000 series using MLC and 6300 using enterprise grade nand eMLC. The drives at launch will have a single port function, but will be upgraded to dual port function via firmware in Q3. The advantage of having dual port function, allows two host to access the drive both at the same time. It also enables SAS like redundancy as well as multi port fail over. Both of these drives are 2.5 inch, and a future release in HHHL form factor.  The drives is based on the NVMe 1.1b specifications, running on PCIe 3.0 x4.

 

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Very interesting... so you will be able to use two sata ports with it in the future? if so then that's pretty cool, I wonder how much of a speed increase you'll see from that if any.

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3.2/6.4Tb..them storage capacity, it could almost hold my stuff for academic purposes

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While this is cool, having up to 6.4TB SSD's with blistering fast Read and Write speeds, something I'm wandering,

Why is no one developing SATA Express devices? Both of them use up PCIe Lanes, and SATA Express (As far as I know) was developed before NVMe. 

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While this is cool, having up to 6.4TB SSD's with blistering fast Read and Write speeds, something I'm wandering,

Why is no one developing SATA Express devices? Both of them use up PCIe Lanes, and SATA Express (As far as I know) was developed before NVMe. 

 

Sata express is a Frankensteins monster. It only supports 10Gb, so even m.2 x4 beats it in speed. But the worst part is the stupid connector. Nvme is a standard for processing data, not a connector type. So you can have nvme on m.2 the weird connector on this SSD, no one remember the name of, and I believe SATA as well.

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Sata express is a Frankensteins monster. It only supports 10Gb, so even m.2 x4 beats it in speed. But the worst part is the stupid connector. Nvme is a standard for processing data, not a connector type. So you can have nvme on m.2 the weird connector on this SSD, no one remember the name of, and I believe SATA as well.

SFF-8639 is the connector name :P  I have that memorized, because I like the name.

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I just want 3 and 6 and 10 Tb SSDs as cheap as possible, SATA3 is plenty fast for simple mass storage once you start stacking drives. 

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I just want 3 and 6 and 10 Tb SSDs as cheap as possible, SATA3 is plenty fast for simple mass storage once you start stacking drives. 

Heck if they can provide 2tb or 3tb's at a $600 and $800 price point respectively on SATA3 - it'd be ridiculously nice.

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Heck if they can provide 2tb or 3tb's at a $600 and $800 price point respectively on SATA3 - it'd be ridiculously nice.

 

That would be awesome.  1TB is already ~$300, so 2TB for $600 would make sense.  I still don't understand why they don't make larger than 1TB sizes on the consumer side.  They have had 2-3 TB SSDs on the enterprise side for a while now.

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That would be awesome.  1TB is already ~$300, so 2TB for $600 would make sense.  I still don't understand why they don't make larger than 1TB sizes on the consumer side.  They have had 2-3 TB SSDs on the enterprise side for a while now.

Hell, we may start seeing $200 1tb SSD's within the year.  They're dropping prices fast to be competitive.  Patriot and Mushkin are pushing pricing down.  Though, I can say that I am more interested in power-loss-protection getting on consumer drives along with high capacities.  2tb should be perfect, so if they can offer for $500-$600 2tb SSDs with PLP, I'd be content for a long while.  Two 2tb would cover all my needs.

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How much will a 6TB NVME SSD cost...

 

I'm guessing more than an 18 Core Xeon?

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How much will a 6TB NVME SSD cost...

 

I'm guessing more than an 18 Core Xeon?

Seems around $13k

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Seems around $13k

Damn, wouldn't six 1TB SSD's in RAID 0 technically be a better solution for the money?

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Damn, wouldn't six 1TB SSD's in RAID 0 technically be a better solution for the money?

I've no idea what speeds we could get with NVMe drives in RAID 0. But possibly yeah.

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Awesome drive. Dem numbers, dem price.

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