OCZ has a good number of the announcements at the CES, did, during the Cebit and did it all again. However, the company showed new Vertex 4, a solid-state drive with the new Indilinx controller, and Thunderbolt ssd.
The Vertex 4 must be in the course of april available are going to be, and would then, logically, something more expensive than the Vertex 3 with SandForce controller. The Vertex 4 uses a Indilinx Everest 2 controller, synchronous flash memory drives. During a demonstration were approximately 85,000 iops achieved, but by the firmware to further tweak aims to OCZ that screws to 90,000 iops at the time of release.
The Vertex 4 uses a sata-600 interface, for which sequential speeds up to 550 and 500MB/s for reading, respectively writing will be met. The Vertex 4, however, would especially excel in performance in the long term and not suffer from degradation. Also, the new controller is just as fast with oncomprimeerbare data as with compressible data the SandForce controllers prefer compressible data for good performance. The drive should be about a month.
In addition to the Vertex 4 showed OCZ a number of products on the basis of the Kilimanjaro controller, the Marvell developed. A pci-express card with eight such controllers would be 2.5 million iops. The controller can not only for pci-express ssds are used, but also for his Thunderbolt ssd with the name Lightfoot used. The external ssd with 750MB/s is able to copy and would be about 2,5 dollar per GB costs. The capacities of the Vertex 4 are a maximum of 2TB and the Lightfoot comes around in June, in versions with 128, 256 and 512GB.
OCZ is not the only company with a Thunderbolt ssd. The American company Elgato comes with its variant, which is simply as the Thunderbolt SSD calls. The displayed model had a capacity of 240GB, but a 120GB version is also available. The speed is due to the SandForce 14xx controller is lower than that of OCZ’s drive; Elgato promises data transfer speeds of 270MB/s.