OCZ Z-Drive m84 PCI-Express SSD Review @ HotHardware.com

news · October 19, 2009

Hello Everyone,

An interesting thing about NAND Flash SSD technologies, beyond the fact

that the market is flush with competitive product offerings, is that the

technology itself is very flexible and adaptable to a number of different

design approaches. Take for example a RAID 4-pack configuration with

Intel's X25-M SSD or perhaps the omnipotent Fusion-io ioDrive. Granted,

these are rather high-end, pricey setups, but you get the gist that solid

state storage arena is just getting warmed up.

In a sort of hybrid version of Fusion-io's product and our RAID 4-pack

array, OCZ Technology has introduced an almost fully integrated solution of

their SATA-based SSD technology, along with a third party RAID controller,

all wrapped up clean and tidy on a PCI Express X8 adapter card.

Dubbed the Z-Drive, we first got a look at this wild-eyed beast back in

May. It wasn't quite ready for prime time back then and it re-emerged again

in early September with specs that admittedly caused a pavlovian response

of our salivary glands. Today, we get to satiate ourselves with a deep

dive look at the new OCZ Z-Drive, in a tasty 256GB variant that drops in at

an almost reasonable $899 price point that is on near cost parity with a

standard mid-range SSD...

OCZ Z-Drive m84 PCI-Express SSD Review:

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