SAN JOSE, USA: SSD vendor OCZ Technology Group launched the Indilinx Everest-based, 1TB, 2.5 inch format, Octane SATA 3.0 and SATA 2.0 SSD series.

"Until now SSDs have been tailored for specific applications, forcing users into a product which maximizes performance for a narrow band of applications, but is significantly lacking in others," said Ryan Petersen, CEO of OCZ Technology. "The Octane Series solves this problem by providing the highest level of performance across varied workloads including mixed file sizes and mixed compressible and incompressible data, all while nearly doubling NAND flash endurance."

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The Octane series can deliver up to 560MB/s of bandwidth and 45,000 IOPS and is optimized for the complete spectrum of file types and sizes, says the company in a release.

The Octane series feature read and write access times as low as 0.06ms and 0.09ms respectively. This enhances application responsiveness and enables features such as "fast boot" in consumer applications.

The Octane SSDs also come equipped with Indilinx's NDurance technology, increasing the lifespan of the NAND flash memory.

The Octane series drives support AES and automatic encryption to secure critical data.

Octane Product Features:

Dual Core CPU

Up to 512MB DRAM cache

128GB, 256GB, 512GB, and 1TB models

High sequential speeds:

Octane (SATA 3.0) Read: 560MB/s; Write: 400MB/s

Octane-S2 (SATA 2.0) Read: 275MB/s; Write: 265MB/s

High transactional performance - Optimized for 4K to 16K compressed files

Octane (SATA 3.0) 45,000 random read 4K IOPS

Octane-S2 (SATA 2.0) 30,000 random read 4K IOPS

Low Latency: Read: 0.06ms; Write: 0.09ms

Strong performance at low queue depths (QD 1 --3)

Up to 8 channels with up to 16-way Interleaving

Advanced BCH ECC engine enabling more than 70 bits correction capability per 1KB of data

Proprietary NDurance(TM) Technology: increases

NAND life up to 2X of the rated P/E cycles

Efficient NAND Flash management: Dynamic and static wear-leveling, and background garbage

 collection

Boot time reduction optimizations

NCQ support up to 32 queue depth

The OCZ Octane SSD Series will be available from November 1 in models ranging from 128GB-1TB capacities.