OCZ Z-Drive R4 with 16 SandForce 2200 chips exposed

Posted on Monday, January 09 2012 @ 23:40 CET by Thomas De Maesschalck

PC Perspective reports OCZ has cooked up a new Z-Drive R4 that has double as much SandForce 2200 controllers than its predecessor:

OCZ has a monster of a Z-Drive R4 on display at Storage Visions. We looked at the original 1.6TB R4 back in September. That one had 8 SF-2200 controllers on-board. This new R4 has 16! This R4 has a beast of a VCA 2.0 controller. It's cooled by heat pipes, can handle up to 16 SATA links, address up to 16TB of storage, and pass up to 1.4 million IOPS across a PCIe bus at 6.5GB/sec (yes, GigaBytes).

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