OCZ Unleashes Evolution for Storage

For those of you who want to combine the capacity of hard disk drives (HDDs) and performance of solid-state drives (SSDs), the company OCZ is providing great promise with their latest enterprise storage devices.  The problem with today's storage market in computers is that you still have to choose between high capacity HDDs or high speed SSDs.  The highest capacities are still found in the HDDs with moving parts (slower and less durable), while the highest speeds are found in non-moving SSDs with much lower capacities. At the moment, you can either choose between a 2TB (2000GB) HHD for about $70 or a 60GB SSD for over $100.

OCZ is bridging this serious gap between capacity & performance with their enterprise Z-Drive R4s.  Not only do these drives bring together these capacities and speeds, but they literally hold up the five times the speed of the fastest non-enterprise SSDs.  The lowest end model (CM84) features 1.2TB (1200GB) at 2GB/s read/write speeds while the most powerful model (RM88) features 3.2TB (3200GB) at 2.8GB/s read/write speeds.  

The pricing for these units will be way above the budgets of even the most enthusiast of computer users. OCZ estimates they will go for around tens of thousands of dollars at the moment. However in time, the production of these devices will become cheaper and efficient for non-enterprise computing thus giving media production and gaming enthusiasts a significantly lesser need for slow HDD storage that still - to this day - only runs at about 40-80mb/s read & write speed  Personal non-enterprise SSDs hold these speeds at 200-600mb/s.  Then the Z-Drives run them at 2000-2800mb/s.

See more details here:  http://www.anandtech.com/show/4879/ocz-zdrive-r4-cm88-16tb-pcie-ssd-review