This year the company OCZ has shown an electronic storage device interface PCIe. The announcement was called Z-Drive, but these discs do not become popular, probably because of the relatively high prices.

After several months, and OCZ has released another version of the Z-Drive, with improved features. Shown in the photo, CDs Z-Drive E84 (SLC) and P84 (MLC) have an interface PCI-Express x8, 256MB of cache memory, embedded RAID-controller and MTBF 900,000 hours. The family will come E84 drives 256 GB and 512 GB, maximum read and write speed at which will be equal to 800MB / s and 750Mb / s, respectively. In a series of P84 will be a model capacity 256Gb, 512Gb and 1TB, their speed will be 750Mb / s and 650 MB / sec.

"Traditional storage technologies used in industry usually require a very sophisticated infrastructure, and costly maintenance, and are often unable to provide the level of performance required to run applications", ─ says Ryan Petersen (Ryan Petersen), CEO of OCZ Technology Group . ─ "The new drive is OCZ Z-Drive is a high performance device all-in-one type of Plug-and-Play, can be used as a bootable PCI-E solid-state drive, which solves many problems and meets the requirements of most enterprise storage requirements and data access . SSD Z-Drive is designed not only to ensure high performance, it is also more reliable than traditional solutions, and significantly reduces maintenance and TCO for our customers. "