Dramatically Accelerating Enterprise Applications
It’s storage that evolves with your ever-changing data center. More than just a high-performing SSD, the new Z-Drive 4500 is a full-featured flash solution that integrates robust performance, reliability, data protection, and monitoring functions for critical enterprise applications and demanding big data environments. Z-Drive 4500 also includes the latest software features to deliver low-latency flash resources across your infrastructure, and OCZ’s proprietary Virtualized Controller Architecture (VCA) Technology coupled with proven controller technology enables industry-leading sustained performance. As OCZ’s most advanced PCIe edge card to date, Z-Drive 4500 offers a complete acceleration, caching, and flash management solution for your enterprise storage applications.
The Pinnacle of Storage Performance
- Delivers the performance of hundreds of hard disk drives in a single server
- Reduces I/O and bandwidth bottlenecks with
- sustained read performance up to 2,900 MB/s
- sustained write performance up to 2,200 MB/s
- random 4K block read throughput up to 252,000 IOPS
- random 4K block write throughput up to 76,000 IOPS
Z-Drive 4500 Features
- Leading MLC-based enterprise PCIe edge card performance driven by OCZ VCA Technology
- Integrates with powerful OCZ software solutions supporting Windows application acceleration (through OCZ WXL Software) and flash virtualization (through OCZ VXL Software)
- Features a more robust design over previous Z-Drive R4 models
- Designed in a Full-Height/Half-Length (FH/HL) format supporting 800GB, 1.6TB and 3.2TB usable capacities
- Bootable as a direct-attached device
- Delivers temperature sensing and thermal throttling to maintain consistent operating conditions even under adverse temperature variances
- Provides complete power loss data protection, end-to-end data protection, advanced ECC and other capabilities that extend drive life and protect data
- New SSD casing for a more stable and cooler thermal environment
- Installation drivers support package files (RPM, DEB) that automate the deployment process
- Backed by a 5-year warranty
Proprietary Virtualized Controller Architecture™ (VCA) 2.0
- Provides a multifaceted virtualization layer that interfaces with the host system
- Extends NAND flash life at a block level
- Manages redundancy
- Enables TRIM Command support and SMART health monitoring
- Features internal storage controller delivering highly efficient performance aggregation while reducing the burden on host resources
Superior Enterprise-Class Endurance & Reliability
- Power loss data protection prevents data loss in the event of a sudden power failure
- End-to-end data protection performs data integrity checks at every juncture where data is transmitted, received, processed and stored
- Advanced ECC effectively corrects up to 55 bits per 512-byte sector
- Advanced security with 128-bit AES encryption support
- Temperature sensing and thermal throttling maintains consistent operating conditions even under adverse temperature variances
WXL Windows Accelerator Software Integrated
- Z-Drive 4500 is integrated with OCZ’s new Windows Accelerator (WXL) Software – a flash management and caching solution for Windows Server-based applications
- Enables efficient use of the Z-Drive 4500 as a flash volume, a flash cache, or both concurrently
- Performs statistical ‘out-of-band’ processing to selectively determine what data to cache for I/O acceleration while avoiding processing in the data path itself
- Includes advanced cache warm-up and analysis scheduler for optimal flash usage
- Improves performance and latency on SAN and DAS systems making them more available for other applications
VXL Virtualization Software Support
- Z-Drive 4500 works in conjunction with OCZ’s VXL Virtualization Software to optimized virtualized environments by ensuring critical data is available on flash for use by VMs
- Distributes flash resources on-demand across VMs to accelerate application performance by
- Making sure no VM inefficiently occupies flash when it could be better used elsewhere in the environment
- Utilizing Z-Drive 4500’s flash cache optimally at all times regardless of how many VMs are running concurrently
- Reduces data traffic to and from the SAN
- Delivers a SAN-less software-defined storage system
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