OCZ Z-Drive 1000GB SSD Performance Preview at Cebit

jmke · 5th March 2009, 22:01

OCZ will be launching an SSD based product later this year which promises never before seen performance, 600mb/s read and up to 500mb/s write will not be out of the ordinary. We got a chance to do a few performance tests at Cebit this year where they were demoing a 1000Gb version.

http://www.madshrimps.be/gotoartik.php?articID=911

Kougar · 5th March 2009, 22:15

Insane! That thing is larger than even the largest GPUs.

jmke · 5th March 2009, 22:18

It won't fit in mid-size cases, unless you hack the casing, but at that price point you should be able to afford a nice large case too

Kougar · 5th March 2009, 23:34

Is it even bootable? Was the OS running off of the drive? The last PCIe SSD configurations I heard about were not capable of booting from.

piotke · 6th March 2009, 01:58

It's like booting / running windows from a raid array from a plug in card

Kougar · 6th March 2009, 02:52

Quote:

Originally Posted by piotke

It's like booting / running windows from a raid array from a plug in card

Yes, but as I recall the first Fusion-io card was the same thing, but could not be used as a bootable drive due to some reason or another. They said future models would have the problem solved.

thorgal · 6th March 2009, 08:52

You do need a driver for it to be bootable, but other than that it should work. The one on display was not a boot drive though.

jmke · 6th March 2009, 09:31

it was not used as the boot drive so you could do write tests on it, reformat it with different stripe size etc... it's perfectly bootable, it's after all a Highpoint Rocketraid PCIe card where you hook a few drives up to.

with 8xSATA drives you can get similar speeds of 750mb/s in HDTach
http://www.techwarelabs.com/reviews/.../index_2.shtml

during Windows setup hit F6 when asked and provide a driver disk and you're good to go

colt357tw · 7th March 2009, 08:33

yup jmke is absolutely right on this, all you need to do is setup BIOS to boot from PCIE RAID card

Faiakes · 10th March 2009, 19:25

Now, THAT is the ultimate OS drive (not bloody Vertex...)

5th March 2009, 22:01	#1
jmke Madshrimp Join Date: May 2002 Location: 7090/Belgium Posts: 82,473	OCZ Z-Drive 1000GB SSD Performance Preview at Cebit OCZ will be launching an SSD based product later this year which promises never before seen performance, 600mb/s read and up to 500mb/s write will not be out of the ordinary. We got a chance to do a few performance tests at Cebit this year where they were demoing a 1000Gb version. http://www.madshrimps.be/gotoartik.php?articID=911 __________________

5th March 2009, 22:18	#3
jmke Madshrimp Join Date: May 2002 Location: 7090/Belgium Posts: 82,473	It won't fit in mid-size cases, unless you hack the casing, but at that price point you should be able to afford a nice large case too __________________

6th March 2009, 01:58	#5
piotke [M] Reviewer Join Date: Jun 2002 Posts: 5,039	It's like booting / running windows from a raid array from a plug in card __________________ .

6th March 2009, 08:52	#7
thorgal [M] Reviewer Join Date: Sep 2005 Posts: 1,891	You do need a driver for it to be bootable, but other than that it should work. The one on display was not a boot drive though. __________________

6th March 2009, 09:31	#8
jmke Madshrimp Join Date: May 2002 Location: 7090/Belgium Posts: 82,473	it was not used as the boot drive so you could do write tests on it, reformat it with different stripe size etc... it's perfectly bootable, it's after all a Highpoint Rocketraid PCIe card where you hook a few drives up to. with 8xSATA drives you can get similar speeds of 750mb/s in HDTach http://www.techwarelabs.com/reviews/.../index_2.shtml during Windows setup hit F6 when asked and provide a driver disk and you're good to go __________________

5th March 2009, 22:15	#2
Kougar Member Join Date: Jun 2006 Posts: 1,640	Insane! That thing is larger than even the largest GPUs.

5th March 2009, 23:34	#4
Kougar Member Join Date: Jun 2006 Posts: 1,640	Is it even bootable? Was the OS running off of the drive? The last PCIe SSD configurations I heard about were not capable of booting from.

7th March 2009, 08:33	#9
colt357tw Forum Member Join Date: Feb 2008 Posts: 5	yup jmke is absolutely right on this, all you need to do is setup BIOS to boot from PCIE RAID card

10th March 2009, 19:25	#10
Faiakes Member Join Date: May 2005 Location: UK Posts: 507	Now, THAT is the ultimate OS drive (not bloody Vertex...)

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