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linkis in the ocz Suite on the consumer side we start with the vertex 3 so this
is a sand Force based Drive honestly the problem with something like a San Force
based drive at this point in time is that pretty much everyone in their dog
has a s Force drive so you just have to rely on add-ons like extra warranty or
you know just that sort of the the General brand perception in order to
drive sales so Vertex 4 was an obvious
an obvious thing for ocz to do after they acquired indel links it does use a
thirdparty controller the actual physical controller on the chip but it
uses an IND linkx firmware so they're calling that the Everest 2 platform and
it achieves performance that in almost any case is as good as the vertex 3 but
in cases where you're dealing with incompressible data is actually better so it's a more consistent experience
right here we have the latest drive that ocz's launched so these two are going to
be the ones that are more focused on moving forwards with their indel linkx
technology inside this one not only uses an indel linkx firmware to control the
SSD itself but it also has the Barefoot 3 controller which is the first silicon
that was actually designed inhouse by ocz to deliver the best possible
performance this drive took something along the lines of 18 months to bring to
Market market so they were already working on this 6 months before CES last
year it has a 5-year warranty and it has industry-leading performance it is right
up there with any other 2 and 1 half inch SSD drive because that is pretty
much as good as we can do for a 2 half inch SATA 3 drive at this point because
the SATA interface is getting pretty close to the limit so let's talk about
what we can do if we move beyond the SATA interface now we've seen Revo Drive
products from ocz in the past and they're doing away with that branding
this time or maybe they're not it looks like there's a oh yeah specifications
are preliminary and subject to change so this is the vector PCIe this is going to
use two indel linkx Barefoot 3 controllers it uses 32 nand chips it
comes with cloning software it has a 5year warranty it's going to be available in capacities up to one
terabyte and it uses a PCI Express Gen 2
4X interface giving it a theoretical maximum bandwidth of 2 GB per second now
in the real world it's capable of achieving about 1 gab per second and
you're going to see that on the screen to my right your left but there's a lot
of overhead involved in the PCI Express interface so really to get ahead of this
in terms of performance they'd either have to add more Lanes making it an adex
card or move to PCIe gen 3 now with
these storage devices there's a lot of validation that goes into them because
most PCI Express slots on motherboards on the motherboard manufacturer side are
only really validated with mainstream stuff like graphics cards and sound
cards so in the past there have been some finicky issues so moving ahead to
the newest technology that at this point is only even supported on Intel and not
even on the AMD side might not have made sense and honestly looking at previous
generation products you didn't see the same kind of scaling going from two
controllers to four controllers that you saw going from 1 to two So speaking of
the performance scaling from 1 to two you can see that compared to what a
single Drive is able to do on the SATA 3 interface we're able to see consist
consant performance above sort of anything above about 32 kilobytes where
you're sitting around well still above 800 megabytes per second reads and wrs
this drive can consistently deliver about a th000 megabytes per second reads
and rights so this is comparable to something that I had to build for myself
using an LSI card that cost me about 700 bucks and back in the San Force One days
I needed eight drives to achieve that kind of performance so we're only a few
Generations ahead of that but we're already looking at performance that's
basically space age compared to what we had not that long ago in our Vector SSD
unboxing we talked about how OC is changing their image redefining their
processes internally and trying to refocus right now so let's have a look
at sort of the the existing generation of Enterprise ssds I don't know if you
guys are familiar with these or not but this one was actually at CES last year
already it's available in up to 3.2 terabyte capacities and I know the
internet loves to talk about sort of the one tbte drives that are out are coming
out or but the reality of it is ocz's had things like you know 3.2 terab
drives on PCIe 800 terab drives using a
sass interface on uh on 2 and a half inch form factor for actually quite a
while now so it's um it's interesting I
mean this is this is all that stuff that we've seen before but I have Jerome here
from ocz to tell us about something that's actually all new and uses unlike
these previous generation Solutions which are using sandforce controllers
sandforce uh sand Force driven kind of firmware Updates this guy right here is
actually using ocz's own intellectual property so tell us about the Intrepid 3
right so thanks so this is our intrepret 3 product this is our next Generation
SATA product so as you mentioned this is using our in-house controller our
Everest 2 controller and this is going to be an evolution of our existing set
of products like our Geneva 2 so with Intrepid 3 you're going to get higher
performance for sequential also higher per performance for random input output
operations per second and this one's also optimized for Inc compress ible
data Thea 2 is optimized for compressible andreid 3 is going to give
you really great performance with incompressible data so these two solutions are potentially complimentary
to each other yes that's okay so I mean
it's there's a lot of guys that make ssds so I think the differentiation
really comes from a few different factors so number one is the variety of
the solutions number two is going to be the support that's provided number three
quality of the components that are being used and number four is going to be sort
of how you guys differentiate eles in the market and sort of that that X
Factor thing so this is something we discussed on our live stream we do live
streams every Friday night uh when ocz announced this but ocz has a solution
now for accelerating volumes whether it's using a PCIe solution a SATA
solution a SAS Solution on Linux platforms as well as uh what other
platforms so why don't you tell us uh we're going to wait for this demo to
restart at the beginning and we're going to get drum to walk us through it okay
so here we're showing ocz's new solution for acceleration this is our lxl
platform so what we're doing here is we're showing in our Storage Pro XEL
management software you can see we have the neeva and a z Drive uh ocz volumes
uh installed and what we're doing here is we're selecting the existing volumes
that you want to accelerate so we're picking the ocz volumes here as cache
volumes and our lxl software automatically you know uh
prediscovery done so far is we've already selected the ocz volumes to be
used as cach now we're selecting the volumes to be accelerated and here you
can see we're selecting the policies to be used for the acceleration so essentially these will tell you what
data to put in the cache what's the hot data so we have some preconfigured
algorithms as well as you can select custom algorithms so now there we've
selected the volumes now they're accelerated and we're going to move over
you can see in the summary all the four volumes that were installed are now
accelerated with the ocz deneva and the ocz uh to be clear guys the volumes that
are being accelerated here are going to be mechanical volumes that we're assign
that uh an SSD volume is then being assigned to to Cache now I can tell you
guys right now looking at the interface for this assuming it's going to work this way in the final model check this
out guys 15 uh that
15, 15 15,000 total iops per second
which is much better than you can do with any mechanical volume as we're
about to see when they actually turn the volume acceleration off this is much
easier than what I've seen in implementations from LSI and adaptech in
their RAID storage managers and not nearly as restrictive because you can
take SATA drives you can take PCIe drives you can Clump them together you
can separate them apart so you could say you got a 1.6 terabyte Revo drive you go
I want one terabyte for dedicated SSD storage I want 600 gigabytes that's
going to actually cash a mechanical volume I have somewhere else on the
server um this is extremely exciting because up until now there's been no
real caching solution for SSD available on Linux at all in spite of that being
where most of this most of the server data is
actually dealt with um now is this just
going to be Linux or you guys going to have other Solutions as well we're going to have other Solutions as well we
already have a solution for VMware it's called VXL the Linux solution is called
lxl as we've discussed and we're going to also have a Windows solution which will be called wxl thanks so much Jerome
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