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It will be a few hours until all get access to exhibits at the Flash Memory Summit 2012 in Santa Clara but, ahead of the game, we can say that OCZ will be pulling out all the stops and displaying just how far they have come in the last few years. Although they have not set up their entire line, …

High performance solid state storage devices for enterprise and data center use are getting faster everyday it seems. Today, OCZ announced the release of their a new product, the OCZ Z-Drive R4 CloudServ PCIe SSD. While the name is impressive, the specifications are decidedly more so. To start things off, the CloudServ is availability in several configurations up to an …

Today OCZ invited us up to their penthouse suite at the posh Aria hotel to demo some of their latest and greatest technology. OCZ surprised us with a decidedly enterprise-oriented direction in their newest offerings. With OCZ dominating the consumer space, it is only natural that they want to expand into the enterprise sector. SSDs only account for 1-2% of …

OCZ showed up a bit late to Storage Visions 2012 this morning but, as expected, they had no shortage of product introductions on display. With news of the new jointly developed ‘Kilimanjaro’ platform still fresh on everyone’s mind, OCZ was more than happy to display their new mini-PCIe entry along with the Z-Drive R5 PCIe SSD, the Z-5 containing no …

The OCZ Z-Drive R4 PCI Express SSD contains eight SandForce SF-2281 processors, 128 pieces of NAND flash memory and a Superscale Storage Controller. If ever a MONSTER storage device was created, the R4 definitely answers that call. In fact, a simple review just doesn’t seem appropriate for the OCZ Z-Drive R4 (Z-R4).  Let’s throw it in the ring against FUSION-IO’s …

I guess if you wanted to catch everyone’s attention at a place like Computex Taipei, displaying any product pushing in excess of 1 million IOPS would do it now wouldn’t it? Our official Computex visit started off with a meeting with Alex Mei, CMO, and Jessica Lucan, Global Marketing Director of OCZ Technology, and have we got some toys to …