Octane: new flash drives OCZ in Indilinx Everest!

The Californian manufacturer OCZ has officially announced its first designed around the Indilinx Everest controller flash drives...


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OCZ took advantage of the Computex to unveil the first information about the Indilinx Everest controller, before you formalize it in the summer. The Californian manufacturer has just announced the first flash drives designed around this solution supporting Serial ATA 6 Gb/s. Octane adopts a 2.5-inch format. It operates memory flash asynchronous type MLC, engraved to 25 nanometers by IMFT.


Everest has eight channels. With 512 MB memory cache. Octane will be offered in capacities of 128 GB, 256 GB, 512 GB and 1024 GB. OCZ advance sequential flows reaching 560 MB/s read and 400 MB/s write. Performance are 45,000 IOPS in reading, and 25,000 write IOPS.


The manufacturer also unveils the Octane S2. This model is flanged in SATA 3 Gb/s. He just also asynchronous flash memory. Sequential data rates are 275 MB/s read, for 265 MB/s write. Random performance should not exceed 30 000 IOPS. OCZ States that the new Indilinx controller supports the command TRIM, NCQ, and encryption of data. Everest would be particularly powerful with uncompressible data (the large low point of the SandForce processor).


The California firm will launch its new beginning November 1. The Octane will display rates within a range of 1.10-1.30 dollar per gigabyte. The 128 GB model would therefore cost about 130 euros.

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