OCZ Vertex 4: just launched and already available

OCZ launches its fourth generation of flash Vertex drives, this time above based on a Mount Everest 2 Indilinx controller.

OCZ Announces and launches today its new SSD the Vertex 4 range. Architected around a 6 Gbps SATA III interface, these SSD operate controller Everest 2 from Indilinx, therefore a new step in the transition made by OCZ SandForce of Vertex 3-Indilinx controllers controllers, business with Octane. NAND flash chips used are of type MLC engraved 25 nm by IMFT.

The constructor announced maximum speeds of 200 MB/s write for the model of 128 GB, 380 MB/s for 256 GB and 475 MB/s to 512 GB. Read, these three models peak at 535 MB/s and all display at the level of the input/output per second on files of 4 K of the figures of 90,000 IOPS in reading and 85,000 IOPS write.

The warranty is five years on these disks that should benefit quickly from an update of firmware still improving the performance of these disks read-sequential as stated in article of Hardware .fr. The 128 GB model is sold from €165 (€1.29 /Go), the 256 GB from €335 (€1.31 /Go) and 512 GB model from €670 (€1.31 /Go).

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Free Mobile launched on 17 December, with a free SIM for Free subscribers?

The Free mobile telephony offer could be available in December 17, according to a source well informed the world of telecoms.

This is Pierre-Henri de Menthon, Executive Director of writing Challenges, that reveal information long awaited by millions of people in France for months on his blog: "According to my informant, Free will to the attack before Christmas, by sending from 17 to 19 December a letter to its customers with a small gift." "It is a SIM card with a duration of free time, no doubt a month". This would allow Free capture a maximum of potential customers, to test its network and its infrastructure before launching its commercial offers early 2012.

Free will to the attack before Christmas, by sending a SIM card with a time of free appeal to customers

This information also plausible it is nevertheless a rumour, because the actual launch date is known to Xavier Niel, patron of Free, and two or three of his closest collaborators. The secret is also well guarded as the formula for Coca-Cola. But if this info is true, three historical operators can shake (they have already started a few months to respond to this "phantom menace"), millions of users of Freebox potentially then escape. More that a few days to wait to finally have the end of history and perhaps receive a letter from Santa with a little surprise inside plastic, watch your mailbox (real not the virtual)...

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