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...

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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OCZ announces a range of SSD with the Indilinx Everest controller

OCZ announces a range of SSD with Indilinx Everest controller.After of excellent DSS based on Indilinx Barefoot, a time not so long ago, but yet well gone. Performance has greatly progressed so Everest will replace Barefoot Indilinx or rather OCZ, the latter being owner of Indilinx recently.The Indilinx Everest controller is compatible with a wide choice of components while enabling a rich range of SSD.Thus, Everest is compatible with memory Flash (single-Level, 1 Bit per cell) SLC, MLC (Multi-Level, 2 Bits per cell) and TLC (Triple-Level, 3 Bits per cell).Everest also supports memory ONFI 2.0 and Toggle Flash 1.0 on eight channels with a flow rate up to 200 MT/s (mega-transfer per second), there where other controllers reach 166 MT/s from OCZ.

Advanced by OCZ sequential performance would be 500 MB/s. Everest is also optimized for writing small files with a size of 8 KB, thereby increasing performance for compressed files with a size of 4 KB to 16 KB.System startup time would also be 50% faster than the competition with new algorithms always from OCZ.

For successfully to all this, the Everest controller based on ARM processor dual core supported by of the DDR3 running at 400 Mhz with a capacity up to 512 MB. The maximum supported capacity is 1 To. It will also support the SATA 3.0 (6 GB/s) interface and will be therefore retro-compatible SATA 2 (3 GB/s) and SATA (1.5 GB/s) 1It remains only to wait and see what will actually be worth Everest competition that renews itself fairly quickly.Know also that Everest is already proposed for OEMs to be validated.The complete list Indilix Everest features:

SATA Revision 3.0 - Supports 6Gbps, 3Gbps, and 1. 5Gbps interface speedsDual Core ARM CPU1TB Maximum CapacityHigh Sequential SpeedsHigh Transactional Performance - Optimized for 4 K to 16 K Compressed FilesUp to 8 Channels of ONFI 2.0/Toggle 1.0 Flash at up to 200MT/s with up to 16 - way InterleavingAdvanced BCH ECC engine - over 70 bits per defined sector400MHz DDR3 DRAM Cache Interface with Support for up to 512MBProprietary Ndurance ™ TechnologyEnhanced Power Fail ProtectionSupports up to 1xnm Node NAND Flash with 1, 2, or 3 bits per cellEfficient NAND Flash Management - Dynamic and Static Wear-Leveling, and Background Garbage CollectionBoot Time Reduction Optimizations - Collaborative Platform DevelopmentNCQ Support up to 32 tail DepthEnd-to-End Data ProtectionTRIM SupportNumerous Over-Provisioning OptionsIndustry Standard SMART Reporting

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