OCZ introduces PCI-e SSDs with NVME support

OCZ has officially unveiled its first PCI-e SSD with nvme support. The Z-Drive 6000 for enterprise purposes will be available in two lines: one with regular MLC and one with the more sustainable enterprise MLC.

The Z-Drive 6000 is a line of 2.5″ SSDs with PCI-E 3.0 x4 interface and support for NVME. NVM-Express is the successor to SATA’s AHCI, which delivers low latencies and takes full advantage of the parallelism of solid state memory The Z-Drive SSDs come in a 6000 and a 6300 line, the only difference being the use of emlc and hhl aic form factor for the latter.

Both types of SSDs are available in versions with 800GB, 1.6TB and 3.2TB. They contain the PMC-Sierra ‘Princeton’ controller and are built around 19nm-128Gbit chips from Toshiba, parent company of OCZ. A 6.4TB version of the drive is expected to be released in the fourth quarter of this year.

OCZ claims that the sequential read and write speeds of the 3.2TB model of the 6000 series are up to 2900MB/s and 1900MB/s respectively. The writing speed of the 6300 model is slightly lower with a maximum of 1400MB/s. Random reading could run at up to 700k iops.