When OCZ purchased SSD controller manufacturer Indilinx, many wondered what would come of the deal. The first product to come from the purchase, the OCZ Octane SSD, saw performance close to that of its high-end devices while maintaining a price point for the same amount of storage. Still, even with the lower cost of Octane, SSD prices remain significantly higher than mechanical storage.
OCZ has announced their second Indilinx-based SSD, the Petrol Series, with a goal of bringing SSD pricing closer to that of hard drives. In fact, OCZ claims Petrol reduces SSD deployment costs by thirty percent.
“Until today, SSD adoption has been limited to high performance applications due to the high cost of SSDs in relation to slower rotating discs, and we are proud to once again close the gap in pricing without sacrificing durability,” said Ryan Petersen, CEO of OCZ Technology. “The new Petrol Series showcases the flexibility of the Indilinx Everest platform and NDurance™ Technology, allowing OCZ to deliver the benefits of SSDs to a wide new set of applications while retaining the superior real world performance and reduced latency that separate Everest-based SSDs from our competitors.”
The OCZ Petrol Series offers read/write speeds of up to 400MB/s and 35,000 IOPS, and is optimized for all file types and sizes. Features such as page mapping algorithms and latency reduction technology should keep performance consistent even when the drive’s capacity is approached.
OCZ Petrol SSDs will be available in sizes ranging from 64-512GB and should be available for purchase in the next couple of weeks.
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