OCZ Technology Group, Inc. launched a sequence of 1.8-in. solid state drives (SSD) to present a storage improve for products for example netbooks, ultra-thin laptops and tablets.

The novel drives have a similar performance as their superior 2.5-in. complement, which are sold below the Vertex and Onyx creation names, and come with a three-year guarantee and are rated for 2 million-hour interim among failures.

Similar to superior SSDs, the flash devices present client’s quicker application loading, snappier data access, shorter boot-ups, and a little longer battery life for their systems.

The novel OCZ 1.8-in Vertex 2 uses a higher-end SandForce processor, which excels in 4KB random writes equal to 50,000 input/outputs per second (IOPS) and show off industry-foremost data relocate rates of equal to 285MB/sec for reads and 275MB/sec for writes.

The drive is meant at laptops, netbooks, nettops, and tablet PCs.

OCZ obtainable 2.5-in Vertex 2 SSD is sold into data centers, which need high throughput for relational database and streaming media, so the 1.8-in Vertex 2 is suitably aimed at higher-performance computing wants

The new 1.8-in Vertex 2 is accessible in capability of 60GB, 120GB, and 240GB.