OCZ Intrepid 3000 Enterprise SSDs Expanded With 6Gb SATA 2TB Unit

OCZ Storage Solutions, a Toshiba Group company, announced a series of SATA III SSDs to add to its Intrepid 3000 enterprise portfolio.

The new Intrepid 3700 SSD Series delivers superior performance and I/O latency responses that dramatically improve application performance and I/O efficiencies, and supports higher storage densities up to 2TB representing OCZ’s largest capacity enterprise SATA SSDs to date.

“Datacenter customers have asked for larger solid state drives that do not make any sacrifices in performance or endurance to address the need to manage the ever growing amounts of data being generated by today’s computing environments,” said Daryl Lang, CTO, OCZ “Our new Intrepid 3700 Series is designed to meet these market requirements for an easy to deploy solid state solution that delivers the very best balance of features, endurance, and capacity.”

The Intrepid 3700 Series is available in four models supporting 240GB, 480GB, 960GB and 1,920GB usable storage capacities and utilizes the Toshiba A19nm NAND flash. Each model is driven by OCZ’s Everest 2 controller platform which includes an optimized firmware architecture and advanced flash management that efficiently manages all housekeeping routines (such as garbage collection and wear-leveling) which enables the Intrepid 3700 to maintain performance over the long term.

In a steady state condition the Intrepid 3700 series delivers performance for both large block sequential operations, as well as small block random operations. This includes up to 540MB/s for sequential reads (128KB blocks), 470MB/s for sequential writes (128KB blocks), 91,000 IO/s for random reads (4KB blocks) and 13,000 IO/s for random writes (4KB blocks).

To round out its enterprise feature-set, the Intrepid 3700 Series includes a suite of endurance and reliability tools designed to extend NAND flash memory life and deliver those capabilities required by today’s data center managers.

This includes:

• ECC that effectively corrects errors while reducing the uncorrectable bit error rate (UBER);
• End-to-end data path protection that performs data integrity checks at every juncture where data is transmitted, received, processed and stored;
• Power Loss Protection (PLP) that prevents data loss in the event of a power failure guaranteeing that the in-progress write operations complete and data is properly stored;
• Internal SSD RAID that duplicates all data stored so if there are flash errors a backup exists providing additional data safeguards.The Intrepid 3700 Series supports the 2.5-inch form factor, and guarantees up to one complete DWPD for 5 years.

It is suited for read-intensive applications as online archiving, media streaming, video on demand, VDI and web browsing applications.

All Intrepid 3700 Series models will be available through company’s global channel of authorized enterprise solution resellers.