OCZ Releases First 1TB Laptop SSD with 'Instant On' Boot Up

[nsane.forums]

The 'instant on' feature increases boot times over previous OCZ solid-state drives by 50 percent, the company said.

OCZ today released the industry's first 2.5-in solid-state drive (SSD) with up to 1TB of capacity. The drive, based on the new Indilinx Everest controller, includes an "instant on" feature, that increases boot times over previous OCZ SSDs by 50 percent.

The new Octane SSD also is priced from $1.10 to $1.30 per gigabyte, meaning a 128GB model would sell for around $166.

The new Octane SSD line includes two models: one with a SATA 3.0 (6Gbps) interface and the other with a SATA 2.0 (3Gbps) interface.

The SSD is .27-in (7mm) in height.

The Octane SSD delivers up to 560MB/sec throughput and 45,000 I/Os per second (IOPS) of performance. The drive comes with up to 512MB of DRAM cache, and models have capacities of 128GB, 256GB, 512GB, and 1TB.

OCZ's Octane SATA 6Gbps SSD.

OCZ said the drive is optimized for a full spectrum of file types and sizes because of a proprietary page mapping algorithm that allows for steady mixed-workload performance, mirroring real world conditions across a wide range of applications.

"OCZ has reached an important milestone in the development of its own controller technology," said James E. Bagley, a senior analyst with Storage Strategies NOW, in a statement. "The high sustained performance, even with compressed files, the rapid boot feature and high access speeds using SATA 3.0 protocol puts their controller technology in the major league."

In March, OCZ agreed to purchase South Korea-based NAND flash controller maker Indilinx for $32 million. The Octane is OCZ's first SSD to use the newly acquired company's latest controller technology, which was announced in July.

Earlier this month, LG also announced it would be offering OCZ SSDs with the Everest controller in its ultra-thin netbook line. "Until now SSDs have been tailored for specific applications, forcing users into a product which maximizes performance for a narrow band of applications, but is significantly lacking in others," said Ryan Petersen, CEO of OCZ Technology. "The Octane Series solves this problem by providing the highest level of performance across varied workloads including mixed file sizes and mixed compressible and uncompressible data, all while nearly doubling NAND flash endurance." The Octane series includes a number of advanced features through the Indilinx Everest controller, including what OCZ calls "latency reduction technology," enabling both read and write access times as low as .06 milliseconds (ms) and .09ms respectively.

The Octane (SATA 3.0) SSD has a maximum sequential read and write rate of 560MB/sec and 400MB/sec, respectively, and it can generate up to 45,000 read IOPS using 4K blocks.

By comparison, Intel's SSD 510 laptop drive with a SATA 3.0 interface has a sequential read and write rate of 500MB/sec and 315MB/sec, respectively, and can generate up to 20,000 random read IOPS.

The Octane-S2 (SATA 2.0) has a read and write rate of 275MB/sec and 265MB/sec, respectively, and it can generate up to 30,000 random read IOPS using 4K blocks.

OCZ's Octane-S2 SATA 3Gbps SSD.

The Octane SATA 3.0 model is aimed at performance computing in high-end notebooks, gaming systems and enthusiast desktops and workstations. The Octane-S2 is aimed more toward the home laptop and desktop user.

Octane SSDs come equipped with Indilinx's NDurance technology, which OCZ said doubles the number of program/erase cycles of NAND flash memory - meaning it doubles the overall endurance of the drive from 3,000 to 5,000 program/erase cycles over its lifetime to 6,000 to 10,000.

The Octane series SSDs also support AES encryption to secure data.

View: Original Article

[toyo]

New Indilinx controller ... mmmmm.... tasty.

[Nemesis]

i still wonder about long term life. if the price is reasonable i will consider buying one for my lappy.

[Maxhedroom]

Unless you plan to stick it in a busy server, lifetime shouldn't be an issue. ;)

[Nemesis]

Unless you plan to stick it in a busy server, lifetime shouldn't be an issue. ;)

cool, the 1tb is interesting. i have a macbook and i dual boot so 500 for one and 500 for the other is plenty for me. i have a 750gb WD drive and that split up dosent seem to cut it for me. Games take alot of space on the windows side, and everything else takes up the other side. i have a 2TB external for all my backups. but i cant carry that around with me.

so if you have a sata II then sata III is incompatible no? :unsure:

additional specs pulled off their main site

Octane Product Features:

- Dual Core CPU

- Up to 512MB DRAM cache

- 128GB, 256GB, 512GB, and 1TB models

- High sequential speeds:

Octane (SATA 3.0) Read: 560MB/s; Write: 400MB/s

Octane-S2 (SATA 2.0) Read: 275MB/s; Write: 265MB/s

- High transactional performance - Optimized for 4K to 16K compressed files

Octane (SATA 3.0) 45,000 random read 4K IOPS

Octane-S2 (SATA 2.0) 30,000 random read 4K IOPS

- Industry-low latency:

Read: 0.06ms; Write: 0.09ms

- Strong performance at low queue depths (QD 1 – 3)

- Up to 8 channels with up to 16-way Interleaving

- Advanced BCH ECC engine enabling more than 70 bits correction capability per 1KB of data

- Proprietary NDurance™ Technology: increases NAND life up to 2X of the rated P/E cycles

- Efficient NAND Flash management: Dynamic and static wear-leveling, and background garbage collection

- Boot time reduction optimizations

- NCQ support up to 32 queue depth

- End-to-end data protection

- TRIM support

- Industry standard SMART reporting

The OCZ Octane SSD Series will be available November 1st in models ranging from 128GB-1TB capacities throughout OCZ's global channel.

[Maxhedroom]

Everest has been a looong time in the making, before Ocz bought Indilinx it was known as 'Jet Stream'. Once Ocz bought it they poured all their R&D into it and made it a strong performer in all the areas that SandForce was weak at. SF will still blow the doors off Everest, but ONLY when used as a system/OS drive. Ideal deployment would be SF as the system/boot drive and Everest for everything thing else. Pardon the pun but that will make for one hell of a 'dynamic duo' to say the least. Once launched, Ocz will have covered nearly every desirable solution that comes their way...and everest won't stop there, you can bet the farm they will also kick it up a notch or two for enterprise as well. I wished to hell that I would have bought some Ocz stock back when they first opened up to the stock market. They are going to make a fortune licensing out their new baby to all the other ssd makers.