Tag Archives: SSD performance

OCZ’s latest Z-Drive R4 series PCIe SSD

Posted on August 4, 2011 by Ray

OCZ just released a new version of their enterprise class Z-drive SSD storage with pretty impressive performance numbers (up to 500K IOPS [probably read] with 2.8GB/sec read data transfer). Bootability These new drives are bootable SCSI devices and connect directly to … Continue reading →

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Seagate launches their Pulsar SSD

Posted on December 8, 2009 by Ray

Today Seagate announced their new SSD offering, named the Pulsar SSD.  It uses SLC NAND technology and comes in a 2.5″ form factor at 50, 100 or 200GB capacity.  The fact that it uses a 3GB/s SATA interface seems to … Continue reading →

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