Indilinx-based Petrol SSD joins OCZ's lineup

OCZ has added another Indilinx-based SSD to its stable. The Petrol is a budget offering that uses the same Everest controller as OCZ's recently released Octane solid-state drive. If you read our review of the Octane, you'll know that it comes in standard and S2 flavors. The regular Octane drives use synchronous NAND and sport 6Gbps Serial ATA interfaces, while the S2 models employ slower asynchronous memory chips and 3Gbps SATA links. With asynchronous NAND and a 6Gbps interface, the Petrol appears to slot in between the two Octane flavors.

The press release announcing the Petrol promises sequential transfer rates up to 400MB/s, but it isn't specific about whether that's for reads or for writes. The drive's 35,000-IOps rating is similarly nebulous, although that figure almost certainly applies to ...